Security bill, oppositions sit in protest in front of the government benches in the Senate

The reference is also to the punishability - provided for in the measure - in some cases such as prison riots. of passive resistance or the crime of road blocking. Senate President Ignazio La Russa initially allowed the proceedings to continue by pointing out the precedent of such a protest and giving the floor to Carlo Calenda. The Action senators, as well as Iv, were seated in their seats. Before Calenda took the floor, however, the seated senators made a chorus of "Group leaders, group leaders!" and after a short while the president suspended the sitting and summoned the group chairmen.

"I call on the other oppositions not to fall into this trap. I respected, and did not intervene, your peaceful right to demonstrate. Do it right, next time stay there for 12 hours because if not, I think it's a bit funny... It's clear that you are doing the world's biggest favour to this right-wing by making that scene you saw earlier. So said the leader of Azione, Carlo Calenda, during the explanations of vote in the Senate on the security bill, addressing the sentators of the PD, M5s and Avs who at the start of the session had sat on the floor in the middle of the Chamber to protest against the measure. "This debate, which also concerns things like house occupations, which are important, must be fought on the merits, with arguments and not with shows, because that is exactly what the right wants. And I tell you that in this way the right will continue to govern this country,' Calenda concluded.

"The decision to implement a form of passive resistance in the Chamber is linked to our very harsh criticism of the measure, the 14 new crimes, the aggravating circumstances and the fact that with such a choice, which is absolutely non-violent, today there would be new crimes and imprisonment of two years or more depending on where the passive resistance is made, whether in the street, in a square, in a university, in a CPR, in prison, in a factory or in front of a large construction site. This was said by the leader of the PD group in the Senate, Francesco Boccia, at the end of the Senate group leader's meeting, convened following the minority's protest in the Chamber against the security dl. "In short, we are facing a turn, which we call authoritarian, under the eyes of all, so it is the protest of the oppositions united of the Democratic Party, 5 Star Movement and Avs, also against the subservience of the majority to the government, here the government decides everything, the government issues orders and the majority supine, lowers its head and humiliates Parliament, so this protest is a protest that wants to get out of this chamber, that speaks to the country, of course we will do everything we can to make them change their minds, but they have already decided to place the vote of confidence, we are at the 93rd vote of confidence, they have beaten all the records of the last five legislatures, this should be a stable and cohesive majority and in reality they place the confidence to escape democratic confrontation,' concluded the Dem.