Parliamentary Political News, edition of 6 May 2024

We talk about Elly Schlein against the Jobs Act, the case of Matteo Falcinelli and the European elections

SCHLEIN AGAINST THE JOBS ACT: “I WILL SIGN THE CGIL REFERENDUM”

Elly Schlein will sign the CGIL referendum calling for the abolition of the Jobs Act, a measure approved by the Renzi government. “I said from the beginning that many from the Democratic Party would sign and so would I, who already in 2015 was in the streets with the CGIL against the abolition of article 18”, says the secretary of the Democratic Party. Then, he recalls that the theme “was a fundamental point of the electoral campaign we did for the primaries last year and is a point of mending compared to some bad choices of the past”. There is no problem, according to the secretary of the Democratic Party, in opening up the internal front of the party with those who do not want to sign: “The Democratic Party holds congresses like no other, it discusses and then defines a line, which is one. This does not mean stopping be a plural party: as I said that many would sign, I said that others legitimately will not”.

TAJANI: “WE HAVE FOLLOWED FALCINELLI’S ARREST FROM DAY ONE”

The Italian government has been following “from day one” the story of Matteo Falcinelli, the Italian student arrested and “hooked” by the Miami police last February. The boy, who remained in cell for three days, is now free but still in shock, as his mother reported. The arrest “is an image that I would never have wanted to see – says Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani – I spoke at length with my mother yesterday afternoon, I told her that those images touched me deeply”. The Farnesina is dealing with it together with the Italian Consulate in Florida. Meanwhile, from the images of the American policemen’s bodycams it appears that the boy never touched the officers: a version that contradicts the one provided to justify the arrest.

TG1 AND TG2 ON AIR DESPITE THE USIGRAI STRIKE

Despite the strike proclaimed by Usigrai, the 1pm Tg2 and the 1.30pm Tg1 were still broadcast. Signed services and links, news on the main topics of the day. At the end of the editions of both news programmes, the presenters read the Usigrai statement, with the reasons for the protest, and the text of the company’s reply. The Giro d’Italia, however, was broadcast without commentary. Unirai, a right-wing trade union, is against the strike. Already yesterday, with a note, he announced that hundreds of colleagues would be in the workplace today “because they are against an ideological mobilization”.

EUROPEAN CASSATION WELCOMES BANDECCHI LIST BACK TO THE CENTER

Marco Rizzo’s Popular Sovereign Democracy and Michele Santoro’s Pace Terra Dignità lists will not be on the ballot papers for the European elections in the South and North-West constituencies respectively. The electoral office of the Supreme Court rejected the appeals of the two parties, while it declared the one presented by Forza Nuova to the Center “inadmissible”. The symbol will therefore not appear on the cards for Lazio, Tuscany, Umbria and Marche. The decision of the Supreme Court instead makes Stefano Bandecchi rejoice: Alternativa Popolare has been readmitted in the North-West and the North-East. “We are confident that our participation will also be confirmed in the Islands”, says the mayor of Terni now.