The leader of Italia Viva is meeting with his party members at Villa Borghese. “Meloni has lost the trust of the public with the referendum and that of the political establishment with her voting preferences.” And he responds to the attacks from the Five Star Movement: “Me, unreliable? On what grounds are they speaking? If anyone wants to talk about the past, we’re ready. It wasn’t us who sent Salvini to the Ministry of the Interior.”

The Movement’s vice-president, a close ally of Conte: “Regardless of the voting system, we must decide well in advance who will lead the opposition. We already have a policy framework. Between the electoral law and regional autonomy, an unacceptable trade-off has been made at the expense of the Italian people.”

Committees, public squares and a democratic crisis. The opposition is finding new vigour in the battle over the electoral law, which is making people forget the issues surrounding policy and leadership. 100 initiatives are already planned to explain the "risks of the Melonellum. More dangerous than the separation of careers".

The Prime Minister breathes a sigh of relief at the approval of the Stabilicum and is already looking ahead to September: she’s heading to the beach, in the south, to celebrate the longest-serving government in the history of the Republic. But relations with Salvini and Tajani remain strained

Support for stability, an antidote to political upheavals, a reality check for coalitions. The bill approved yesterday in the Chamber of Deputies offers many reasons to rejoice (even for the broad coalition). Opportunities, things left unsaid and a black hole called Vannacci  

Cavo Dragone reminds the forgetful just how Putin is threatening Europe

The so-called "best loser" amendment, tabled by Paolo Emilio Russo of Forza Italia, effectively places Renzi at the heart of the centre-left. Onorato, however, says he intends to collect signatures and go it alone; Spadafora calls for a “Constituent Assembly” with Renzi’s Casa Riformista; Magi wonders how the amendment itself came about; and Ruffini sees Parliament as “focused on itself”, despite the abstention.

On Facebook, the Constituent Committee of Futuro Nazionale in Latiano posted an image of Christ ascending to heaven, accompanied by a caption referring to the centre-right: “I wouldn’t want to be biased, but even Jesus, having ascended to heaven, sat at the right hand of the Father – who am I to go to the left?”

“It’s not just the appeal for clemency; we’ll also be taking other initiatives here in the House to stir things up a bit and try to provide some answers.” The phone call from Sasso, a resident of Vannaccio, to the jeweller sentenced to 14 years and 9 months in prison for killing two men who had robbed his shop

The expert panel for selective grants funds films by Pif or adapted from books by Scurati and Chiara Valerio. Gender identity and Gaza are at the heart of these debut works