Meloni government challenges Trentino law on third mandate: split in Council of Ministers, League votes against and opens crisis

The center-right government is falling apart over the third term . A rift made clear by the Council of Ministers held today at Palazzo Chigi in which the green light was given to the Infrastructure decree "to strongly accelerate the construction of key infrastructures, optimize the management of public contracts, ensure the efficiency of the transport system and enhance the value of state property, in line with the objectives of the PNRR and European commitments", but above all it was decided to challenge before the Constitutional Court the law of the Autonomous Province of Trento that increased the limit of consecutive mandates for the President of the Province from two to three.

A choice that saw a bitter confrontation in the Council of Ministers and the final decision of the League to express its vote against in the Council of Ministers .

A choice, the one substantially imposed on the allies by Fratelli d'Italia, which from Trento also has effects on Friuli Venezia Giulia , the real object of the conflict in the majority. Friuli Venezia Giulia which, like Trentino, is a Region with autonomy with respect to the others.

The challenge to the law on the third mandate approved by the autonomous province led by the Northern League president Maurizio Fugatti would also have repercussions on the Friuli of another representative of the Northern League, Massimiliano Fedriga , who is also seeking a third mandate.

A political crisis has already opened up in the Region in the majority . On Sunday, the councilors of Lega, Italia and the civic list that bears the name of the president Massimiliano Fedriga resigned , or rather they gave their availability to resign if the crisis is not resolved with Fratelli d'Italia precisely on the question of Fedriga's re-candidacy after the two victories in the Region in 2018 and 2023, with Giorgia Meloni's party opposed .

Officially, the dispute within the majority arose from an interview given to the Gazzettino by Luca Ciriani , Minister for Relations with Parliament of FdI, who had harshly criticized the management of the hospital in Pordenone inaugurated last December and still empty because it was awaiting relocation, sparking a storm and criticism from his colleagues in the majority.

Fratelli d'Italia had already opposed the third mandate, bringing the case of Vincenzo De Luca's Campania to the Constitutional Court: the Prime Minister's party has no intention of evaluating exemptions even for the autonomous Regions. For Fedriga, however, the Constitutional Court's ruling does not deny the autonomous regions the possibility to decide as they wish.