A choice “coward”, “hypocritical”. More: one “violence” against the terminal patients and their families. There opposition battery He starts to cannon Palazzo Chigi a few minutes after the spread of the news that the government intended to challenge the Tuscan law on the end of lifeapproved on February 11 of this year and greeted by President Eugenio Giani as “A law of civilization”.
The criteria of the Law of the Tuscany Region
A rule that fixes the criteria to access the assisted suicidewhich must exist simultaneously: the irreversible pathology; the presence of physical or psychological suffering that the patient considers intolerable; there dependence of the patient from vital support treatments; the patient’s ability to make free and aware decisions.
The position of the government
To push the executive to challenge the rule, on the initiative of the minister of reforms Roberto Calderoli, is the belief that it “Alongside the regional competences” e “The exclusive competences of the State.” regarding civil and criminal system and determination of the essential levels of services concerning civil and social rights.
The reactions of the oppositions
The motivation, however, does not convince oppositions. The secretary of Most EuropeRiccardo Magi, claims that the regional council “He has the right and duty to regulate the methods of disbursement of health services”. Behind the choice of the executive, explains Magi again, there is the will of Giorgia Meloni of “Make propaganda on people by persecuting them inside the death bed”.
Act “Ideological ferocity against families and terminal patients” Angelo Bonelli of Avs speaks. The Co-Portavoce of Europe Verde underlines how “The guilty inertia of the executive” condemn the sick “Pain and therapeutic allocation” Despite the judgments of the Constitutional Court.
The reference to the Constitutional Court
The Consulta had in fact set the criteria by demanding the organizational and economic details of the law to the legislator, as the president of the Tuscany Region recalls.
“Our legislation has been developed in implementation of the sentence of the Constitutional Court 242/2019”explains the governor, defining “paradoxical” the fact that, “Instead of working on a national law for years, the government chooses to hinder those who have committed themselves to implement what is established by the Court”.
“We will defend our law with determination”concludes Giani, “Sure of having acted in compliance with the legality, the Constitution and, above all, of people”.
The parliamentary front
Il 5 Star Movement proposes to resume the battle on the end of life in Parliament, with the proposals already filed: “Our country needs a law on the end of life”the pentastellate parliamentarians explain in a note.
Dal PDhowever, it should be noted that the same majority is stuck the law in parliament. “For months, in the Senate, we have solicited the discussion in the Commission” and the calendarization consequent in the classroom of the DDL, presented by the senator Pd Alfredo Bazoli, “Text, however, already approved in the Chamber”says Francesco Boccia, president of the Dem senators.
“The majority, divided, is keeping the parliament hostage” And this, adds, “It is not acceptable: the restricted committee is summoned as soon as possible and you start working”.
The response of the majority
The secretary of the Democratic Party also lasts Elly Schlein, who talks about “Hypocritical choice, cynical and coward”: “The government holds the law on the end of life in Tuscany, while with the other hand it holds the law on the end of life in Parliament”.
The majority, with the manager of the organization of Fratelli d’Italia, Giovanni Donzelli, however ensures that Parliament will legislate on the theme “In useful, necessary and possible times”. “Certainly the center -right majority in Parliament will do it before the center -left majorities who have not done it in recent years and today instrumentally raise the problem”Chiosa Donzelli.