Overview

• Government invoked a confidence vote in the Senate on the ‘Decreto Sicurezza’ after it passed the Chamber of Deputies on May 29.
• Opposition parties submitted 933 amendments to the decree, none of which will be examined under the confidence procedure.
• Senators from the Partito Democratico, M5S and Avs staged a sit-in at the centre of Palazzo Madama to denounce the measure as anti-democratic.
• Senate President Ignazio La Russa suspended proceedings after the protest, with a final vote on the decree scheduled for today at noon.
• Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi defended the measure as necessary for public order and not a curtailment of freedom of assembly.