Clash over Referendum, La Russa: "I will ask people not to vote". Oppositions rise up

Referendum? ''I keep saying that I'm 'thinking about it' but I'll do propaganda so that people stay home'' . This was said by the President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa at 'Spazio cultura', an event organized by FdI in Florence.

Referendum: Scotto (PD), "La Russa's subversive attitude"

"The President of the Senate La Russa has declared that he will campaign for people to stay home during the referendum. It has never happened that the second highest office of the State has made an appeal of this kind. On the day in which we are mourning the death of Aldo Moro and Peppino Impastato, two martyrs of democracy. We are faced with an attitude that I do not hesitate to define as subversive". Thus the leader of the Democratic Party in the Labour Commission of the Chamber, Arturo Scotto.

Referendum: Magi, 'La Russa's abstention is the behavior of the last state office'

"We have understood that the President of the Senate La Russa does not even know what democracy is, given that together with the Meloni government he has transformed the Senate into the rubber stamp of Palazzo Chigi. But that the President of the Senate announces that he will actively campaign for people to stay at home and not go to vote in the referendum on June 8 and 9 is unworthy of the lowest office of the State, not the second. The fact that he then backtracked compared to a few days ago gives an idea of ​​how the Senate is now an annex of the Meloni house. But the fear of this right for the popular vote is increasingly emerging. I am sure that La Russa's invitation not to go to vote in the referendums will bring many more people to the polls". This is what Riccardo Magi, secretary of +Europa and president of the committee promoting the referendum on citizenship, says.

Senate: Conte, "on Mo and referendum from La Russa statements that seem horror"

"The President of the Senate Ignazio La Russa, the second highest office of the State, says: 'I will campaign so that people stay home in the referendum'. We are talking about the vote that would allow citizens to increase rights and protections in terms of safety at work, against illegitimate dismissals, against precarious employment. And as if that were not enough, La Russa always talks about 'possible mistakes' by Netanyahu. Are 'possible mistakes' over 50 thousand Palestinians exterminated, children and mothers reduced to hunger and malnutrition with the blocking of aid, the attacks on hospitals and ambulances? It seems like a horror story, but instead they are the statements of the leaders of our institutions". Giuseppe Conte, president of the 5 Star Movement, wrote this on social media.

Referendum: Schlein, "Unworthy that Second State Office Encourages Abstention"

"It is very serious that the right continues to encourage abstention from the referendum and it is truly unworthy that the second highest office of the State does so. The words of Ignazio La Russa are also serious because they betray one of the constitutional principles that establish voting as a civic duty. But the far right in government has amply demonstrated that it does not care about these principles, rights and work. The best possible response in the face of this drift is to go, all of us, to vote on June 8 and 9 to combat precariousness and for citizenship". Thus the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein.