The Quirinal's high bid

Security decree, towards new ad hoc decree. The government places confidence. Salvini attacks the Colle

The new decree should provide for a few steps. First: the lawyer must be paid in any case, even if the repatriation does not take place in the end. Second: it will not only be lawyers who will be able to carry out the support activity. In fact, the 615 euros will be paid to any other figure who is activated to facilitate the repatriation procedure

by Rome Editorial Staff

21 April 2026

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Incentives not only for lawyers but also mediators
Meloni: "Lawyers' rule makes good sense and remains, ad hoc decree for corrections"
La Russa: "no need to correct, a remedy is found"
Salvini: Colle's remarks on security dl? I am no longer surprised by anything
Piantedosi: "On voluntary repatriations we prepare for correction"
First the idea of a corrective amendment, then the about-face
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A new 'substitutive' decree to solve the knot of the rule of the Security Decree, which ended up under the Quirinale's lens, which provides an incentive of 615 euro for lawyers who follow and favour the voluntary repatriation of their clients. This is the hypothesis that has made its way through the executive in recent hours. In practice, at the same time as the promulgation of the law converting the Security Decree, a new decree law will be approved and promulgated to replace Article 30 bis on repatriations. In this way, the government does not run the risk of the decree falling due to obstructionism by the oppositions. The security measure will therefore be approved as it is by the Chamber of Deputies and immediately corrected with the new decree law, which should go into the Gazzetta together with the law approved by Montecitorio.

Specifically, the new decree should provide for a few steps. First: the lawyer must be paid in any case, even if the repatriation does not take place in the end. Second: it will not only be lawyers who will be able to carry out the support activity. In fact, the 615 euros will be recognised to any other figure who is activated to facilitate the repatriation procedure.

The government will put its trust in the security decree under discussion in the Chamber of Deputies. Explanations of vote are scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. tomorrow, followed by the vote of confidence and the consideration of 145 agendas. This is what emerged from the meeting of the group leaders. The question time is confirmed for tomorrow at 3 p.m.

Incentives not only for lawyers but also mediators

The undersecretary for relations with Parliament, Matilde Siracusano, announced at the conference of group leaders that "at the same time" as the security decree goes to the House, the government will approve another decree that will "correct" the rule for incentives to lawyers for repatriations "enlarging the number" of recipients of the contribution that "will be granted even if the voluntary repatriation practice is not successful". This was reported at the end of the meeting by M5s group chairman Riccardo Ricciardi. "The condition of a positive outcome of the repatriation would be removed," he was echoed by the leader of the PD group Chiara Braga, explaining that Siracusano would have mentioned in the list of beneficiaries not only lawyers but also 'mediators'.

Meloni: 'Lawyers' rule common sense and remains, ad hoc dl for corrections'

The rule on incentives to lawyers for voluntary repatriations in the security decree will be corrected through an ad hoc decree to be approved by the Council of Ministers tomorrow, Wednesday 22 April. This was said by Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, at a press point during a visit to the Milan furniture fair. "I do not consider the measure a mess," the Prime Minister said. "We are collecting the technical remarks that have arrived from the Quirinale and from the lawyers, we will transform them into an ad hoc measure, but the rule remains because it is an absolute common sense rule."

La Russa: 'there is no need to correct, it can be remedied'

On the security dl "they are working, a remedy is being found". Thus the president of the Senate, Ignazio La Russa, on the sidelines of the Milan Furniture Fair. Is there a risk of Parliament remaining open on 25 April to correct the Security decree? 'No, there is no risk because they have already decided that there is no need to correct it, we are finding a solution, because there is no need to correct,' he added.

Salvini: Colle's remarks on security dl? I am no longer surprised by anything

'I am no longer surprised by anything'. This is how the Vice-Premier and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, responded to journalists who asked him whether he was surprised by the Colle's remarks on the Security Decree, on the sidelines of his visit to the Furniture Show. The government will make another measure that incorporates the remarks made. "I am interested in results, so that the crackdown on the maranza, on those who carry knives, that expulsions and repatriations are speeded up," he concluded, "and that the number of those who enter is reduced

Piantedosi: "On voluntary repatriations we prepare for correction"

During the debate in the plenary session on the security bill on assisted voluntary repatriation, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi said: 'That the Parliament agrees with measures that favour repatriation and resettlement of those migrants who wish to return to their countries of origin through initiatives based on absolute voluntariness corresponds to those very objectives that Europe has called the attention of member states to, and yet we have taken note of certain sensitivities that have been expressed on a specific point of the rule and we are prepared for its correction'.

First the idea of a corrective amendment, then the about-face

The Quirinale's spotlight has been on this measure for days. On Monday, Undersecretary Mantovano went up to the Hill to meet the Head of State. The mere hypothesis that Sergio Mattarella might not countersign the measure in the absence of substantial changes sent the majority into a tizzy. It first let it be known that it wanted to present an amendment in committee to modify the contested rule but then, late in the evening of Monday 20 April, it blocked the machinery because of the fear of obstructionism by the oppositions that could lead to the decadence of the measure. In fact, a third reading in the Senate, after the OK in Montecitorio, would have been necessary to make it become law. But with such a tight time frame (the deadline for conversion is 25 April), the risk of not making it would have been decidedly high. Hence the reconsideration of other measures that had already been assessed during a very long day.