Following the award to Marchi and Nobile, the Campidoglio has promised stricter checks on requests for conference rooms. From the ‘home of all Romans’ to the Montecitorio press room, the rules governing access to political venues have failed to stop grotesque press conferences, animals in the chamber, Harley-Davidsons and anti-vaccine rants.

The centre-right has approved the bill, with the M5S, AVS and Vannacci’s Futuro Nazionale opposing it, whilst the Democrats have abstained, despite the call for unity on the measure made by the life senator a few days ago.

“If you agree to hold the primaries, whoever wins them, you support them. Then I’ll do everything I can to ensure that the person I consider the furthest from my views doesn’t win. But if he does win, he’ll govern. Full stop,” says the leader of Italia Viva. The meeting with Beppe Sala in Milan for the launch of his book

The former M5S MP speaks publicly for the first time about his illness in Cuba: “This 21st-century plague has one redeeming feature: it is democratic”

At Mediaset, the ‘Berlingueroni I’ era has begun, featuring Pier Silvio’s ‘magnificent seven’. Now the presenter could be set to reunite with Mauro Crippa

The spread is up (to 100 points), but so too is the rift between the secretary and the ‘defectors’ from Forza Italia (Zangrillo, Mulè). The ‘stunt’ by the President of Calabria, on tour to promote his new book. The Deputy Prime Minister’s challenge: ‘Anyone who wants to should stand as a candidate at the party conferences’

Today’s meeting of the secretariat is to discuss the extension of the mandate and to put a stop to any other Democratic Party candidacies in the coalition primaries, starting with that of the former mayor of Bergamo. However, if Schlein stood as a candidate—in breach of the party constitution—while not a registered member, how can another candidacy now be banned when the party constitution actually permits it? For the secretary, the PD’s constitution is not like the Constitution: it can be changed as and when necessary.