Overview

• Giunta relator Pietro Pittalis urged the Assembly to refuse authorization, arguing Justice Minister Carlo Nordio, Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi and Undersecretary Alfredo Mantovano acted for a preeminent public interest.
• Three separate secret ballots will be held, one for each government member under investigation in connection with the arrest, release and repatriation of Libyan general Osama Almasri.
• To deny authorization, the House must reach an absolute majority of its members, set at 201 votes under parliamentary rules.
• The governing coalition instructed deputies to ensure full attendance for the vote, with FdI, FI, Lega and Noi Moderati totaling 242 seats as ministers take their places on the government bench.
• Investigators contest, variously, aiding and abetting, peculation for Piantedosi and Mantovano, and omission of official acts for Nordio, and Pittalis also proposed seeking authorization regarding Nordio’s chief of staff, Giusi Bartolozzi.