The government challenges the Trentino law on the Third mandate: the League votes against

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The deadline for appealing expired today, and in the end the government decided to challenge the law of the autonomous province of Trento that granted the possibility of a third mandate to President Maurizio Fugatti before the Constitutional Court . This was decided by the Council of Ministers this morning: according to majority sources, the League (of which Fugatti is an expression) voted against. Among others, the Minister for Regional Affairs Roberto Calderoli and the Minister for Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida intervened on the point.

The government, therefore, decides to follow the same path it had followed in the case of Campania: in that case the government's appeal had been accepted by the Constitutional Court, which had ordered the prohibition of a third mandate for the presidents of all regions with ordinary statutes. Now the government's intention is to stop the process for a third mandate also for the regions with special statutes. A hypothesis that involves not only Trentino but also Friuli-Venezia Giulia, where in the last few hours a majority crisis has opened up precisely on the hypothetical third mandate of President Massimiliano Fedriga.

"We are confident that our prerogatives on autonomy as an autonomous Province will also be respected by the government. The Constitutional Court also said so in its ruling on Campania. It is clear that if there were to be a challenge to our law, it would be a political choice, legitimate as all political choices are", Fugatti had said even before the decision of the Council of Ministers.

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