End of life, the opposition challenges the centre-right

Sul end of life the opposition challenges the majority to Senate. Tomorrow the Democratic Party will present to Group leaders’ conference the request to set a certain date for the arrival of the law text in the Chamber after a stalemate of over nine months. For the proposal to pass, however, the votes of the centre-rightor at least part of the parties that make up the coalition.

Yesterday Chiara Braga e Francesco Boccia – presidents of the Dem deputies and senators – had launched the appeal to Forza Italia and today they renew the concept: “There is no need for ambiguity or postponements: we need parliamentary courage”, says Boccia who calls for “responsibility in the face of people’s suffering and in the face of a clear request from the Constitutional Court“. To the Democratic Party – which prefers the solutions envisaged in the ddl Bazoliapproved by the Chamber in the last legislature and then stalled Palazzo Madama – he replies Stefania Craxigroup leader of FI in the Senate: “For us – he tellsAgi – the main path is to reopen the process in commission. The text Zanettin-Zullo It’s a good starting point. Allow me to make an appeal to the opposition: it is not a matter for propaganda. Let us look together for a serious and responsible national text”. Even the blue group leader in the Chamber, Enrico Costa he says he shares the need to get a law approved and raises the issue of the unified text (opposed by the opposition) submitted to the commission by Pierantonio Zanettin (FI) e Ignazio Zullo (FdI).

The position of the 5 Star Movement

Il 5 Star Movement invites us to leave aside “party flags” and with Mariolina Castellone the majority rejects the proposal which, recalls the vice president of the Senate, “establishes that access to assisted suicide must be limited to cases in which the patient is subjected to treatment to replace vital functions and excludes end-of-life pathways from the perimeter of the National Health Service“.

The criticisms of the Green Alliance and the Left

A concept that also takes up Ilaria Cucchisenator of Greens and Left Alliance: “Whoever wants a law must demonstrate it in the parliamentary halls. Enough prevarication, it’s time for the right to assume its responsibilities”, he states and underlines how “only the National Health Service can ensure uniformity of treatment, protection of dignity and absence of economic or territorial discrimination”.

The positions of Action and +Europa

Action judges the centre-right’s proposal “regressive compared to constitutional jurisprudence” but he still says he is available for dialogue while +Europa he invites prudence and on FI’s position he says: “Attention: as long as it is not a text that is even pejorative compared to the principles already established by the Constitutional Court, as in the case of the Zullo-Zanettin text. If the desire to take a step forward is real, then start from the proposal Coscioni in the Senate or by +Europa in the Chamber”. The fear he expresses Riccardo Magi “is that it is just a media operation destined to fall into nothing, as has already happened on the issue of citizenship and of right school. We are ready to verify it.”