Overview
- Lawmakers in the Chamber approved the first reading on Wednesday with 159 votes in favor, 33 against and 55 abstentions.
- The draft would change Article 114 to list Roma Capitale as its own tier of government with lawmaking power over transport, local policing, land use, culture, social services and public housing.
- The Democratic Party abstained as a pressure move for a parallel ordinary law to secure funding and means, a choice Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned as breaking prior understandings.
- A League order of the day approved in the same sitting asks the government to evaluate extending similar legislative powers to the municipal capitals of other metropolitan cities.
- The reform still requires three more readings and could go to a confirmatory referendum without supermajorities, while the separate implementing bill on resources and procedures has been drafted but not yet submitted to Parliament.