The majority closes ranks and rejects the opposition’s sub-amendment. The Prime Minister’s anger: “I reinstated them myself.”

According to FdI, Alice Weidel’s party’s success in Saxony is down to grand coalition governments and green policies. The Prime Minister is looking increasingly confidently towards the March election and has drawn a red line for Vannacci

The PD MEP has criticised the Danish socialist prime minister, who is forming an alliance with the Italian prime minister: “They’re not proposing anything concrete. We need agreements with countries of origin and integration – not just hubs abroad.”

New electoral law, an alliance without the general, a gamble on the right’s majority-voting orientation and, should the bonus not be awarded, dialogue – but only after the elections. This is how the centre-right can circumvent the problem posed by Futuro Nazionale

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