Security decree accelerates: double guillotine of the majority. Opposition: "Unheard of, shameful"

Controversy erupts in Parliament over the "double" guillotine placed by the majority on the security decree to speed up the process. With the oppositions strongly contesting the merit and the tight timeframe for examining the measure, shouting "shame!"

Amid protests, the green light from the Constitutional Affairs and Justice Committees of the Chamber of Deputies to the mandate of the rapporteur for the security decree has arrived. The text will go to the Chamber on Monday and a vote of confidence is likely.

The mandate to the rapporteur was voted when there were still three members to speak. "We will write to Fontana - said the dem Simona Bonafè leaving the commission and commenting together with the entire opposition on what had happened - we are faced with an absolute novelty: the guillotine was applied when we did not obstruct and not only were we not given the opportunity to examine the amendments but not even to intervene in the declaration of vote on a measure born with a process already forced in itself. It is an unacceptable forcing both in terms of merit and method".

"We have not been provided with any precedents - observed Maria Elena Boschi (Iv) - of a use of the guillotine without obstructionism. It is a completely arbitrary guillotine and exclusively linked to the majority's need to return home".

"It is a measure that affects people - said Alfonso Colucci (M5s) that sends women with minor children to prison, makes illegal occupation of real estate a criminal offense and the roadblock allows the Presidency of the Council to form terrorist associations: today Gladio is legitimized, it is a very serious fact and there was an evident will of the majority to escape from uncomfortable topics. It is truly a transition both in form and content that signals a turning point in the State that is less and less a State of law and more and more a police State, sliding towards a democracy".

"There is a qualitative leap - said Filiberto Zaratti of Avs - because when not even the prerogatives of opposition parliamentarians are guaranteed, this is called a regime".