Parliament under pressure for another wider-ranging amnesty

There is not only the hypothesis of reopening the third building amnesty, dated 2003, mainly for the benefit of Campania. In the dossier of amendments tabled to the Budget Bill 2026, another amendment proposal has popped up, again signed by Fratelli d'Italia (Matteo Gelmetti, Domenico Materia, Sergio Rastrelli, Giulia Cosenza), which points in an even more controversial direction: to reopen a amnesty for the whole country, on the model of the first building amnesty of 1985, for abuses carried out by September 2025.

While the package of reported amendments takes shape, from which it will become clear whether the majority is willing to continue along the road of the possible reopening of a building amnesty, yesterday the controversy on the issue went on, dividing majority and opposition. Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi still claimed the correctness of the choice, calling it 'an opportunity to do something that should not be a favour to abusivism but a new regularisation under certain conditions'. And the president of the Senate Budget Committee, Nicola Calandrini, also said: 'This is in no way a new building amnesty. The amendment only intervenes to eliminate a discrimination that has been going on for twenty-three years'. On the other hand, there are accusations of election campaigning through this regulation.

The file of amendments, however, does not only contain proposals limited to Campania. Among the texts presented by Fratelli d'Italia, one appears that even refers to the first building amnesty, the one of1985. And it hypothesises the amnesty throughout Italy of a long series of unauthorised works, provided they have been completed by 30 September 2025. The list includes "appurtenant works such as porticoes or canopies built in the absence of or not in compliance with the building permit", accessory works such as balconies or loggias, which are also unauthorised, as well as all restructuring and renovation works carried out in the absence of or not in compliance with a permit, provided that they have not increased the surface area and volume.

This is a list which, it must be emphasised, does not include, for example, new constructions that are totally unauthorised. And which, in some ways, redefines the perimeter of action of the first amnesty, in fact opening up another one with more limited boundaries. It would, in short, be an intervention intended to facilitate the putting in order of buildings without an amnesty for any work.

The focus on the subject of amnesties in the majority is, however, high and returns in several amendments. Other proposals envisage giving a deadline to the municipalities to close the pending cases relating to the three amnesties of 1985, 1994 and of 2003: they should move by 31 March 2026 to complete the many applications that have been pending for years.