“On tiptoe but no dilatory intent” –

On the constitutional reform of the premiership “I am always available to dialogue as long as the intent is not dilatory and is not what we have seen many times…”. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this while speaking at the conference on reforms in the Sala della Regina of Montecitorio. «We did what the citizens asked us to do» because the reform, then implemented in the race for the premiership, «was in our electoral program. We have proposed a reform that solves some of the great structural problems of this nation, which is why I define it as ‘the mother of all reforms’. And we did it by touching only 7 articles of the Constitution, we did it on tiptoe. We did not make a reform that came in straight away, that distorted the Constitution. It was a political choice, one of dialogue.” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni claims this, speaking in the Chamber at a conference on the topic. «I started from a French semi-presidential system – she recalls – We met the other forces and they all said that the President of the Republic cannot be touched. So I abandoned semi-presidentialism, because it would have been divisive.” Therefore, she claims repeatedly, “it was decided to enter on tiptoe, while making a great revolution”.

«I am convinced that we would do the nation a good service if we accompanied» the reform of the premiership with «an electoral law that reconstructs the elector-voter relationship and consolidates the democracy of alternation. I believe I was the president of the only party that had the courage to present amendments that reintroduced preferences for the election of parliamentarians. I have never been against it, on the contrary, and I am open to this too.” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said this while speaking in the Queen’s Hall in Montecitorio.