Source The Repubblica.it
ROME - now dissolve the Chambers and to vote means giving € 300 million to political parties, a hundred million a year for the next three years , until 2011, natural expiration of the XV legislature. One is reminded of "Lascia", the quiz game with the Italians began to win money on television in the second half fifties. Only this time the beneficiaries are the parties and who loses is the State, ie the citizens.
The game, if you can call it, is very simple: each year the parties are divided, according to the votes they received, a cake of approximately € 50 million that goes under the heading electoral reimbursements. Fifty million for each of the five-year term. Once Logically, if the legislature ended reimbursement was discontinued to make way for a new one that would come anyway.
But in February 2006, still riding the Berlusconi government, involved a very small change ensures that "the election of the reimbursement provision in case of dissolution Chambers. "means that the parties represented in the next Parliament - many of which are absolutely identical - will take twice the reimbursement election. surely happen in Forza Italy and Pd that add up the repayments" old "and the Olive Tree" new "in the Democratic Party. Perhaps this is a banal case of calculation of the reasons for willingness to return to vote. Voting agrees.
from 800 lire to 1 euro. "guide" on this trip in the waste is Silvana Mura, Member of Parliament ' Italy of Values \u200b\u200band treasurer of the party twice, in the budget passed in December 2006 and the one approved last December, has tried to change things. Bouncing in the wall of the same parties. Clean Hands and the subsequent referendum in 1993 had abolished public funding for parties in 1999 crops up outside under the term "reimbursement election." So far nothing unusual. Indeed, a civil right since the parties are to serve their citizens and it is right that we have a reimbursement for their expenses.
The refund is estimated at 800 pounds each year for every vote. The arrival of the euro is double the price of fruit and bread as well as reimbursement for parties in 2002 - Berlusconi government - goes from 800 lire to 1 euro per round vote. No one says anything. Refunds for snap elections, the House and Senate and regional authorities. With the pace parties that exist in Italy is virtually continuous and timely repayment appears each year in the budgets of the House and Senate.
Double scandal. The "scandals" as he calls them Mr Walls, in this practice are at least two very Italian. The first: "The provision of electoral reimbursements is not a fixed amount calculated based on who actually goes to the polls but on the number of claimants." A waste in the waste that is worth a few million euro. The annual fund, so much for the House to the Senate, was 49 million and 964 thousand € 574. But the number of people who vote never corresponds to the beneficiaries and the number of claimants for the Senate is less than that of the Chamber. A few examples. In 2006, the House voted 83% of those eligible. If a refund is real, ie only those who voted, would have amounted to 41 million and 789 thousand euro, "savings", according to the accounts of Silvana Mura, "eight million euro a year." For the Senate voted 76% of the eligible 38 million for a savings of approximately € 11 million per year.
The second scandal. That 's what triggered in the event of early dissolution of the rooms. Until 2006 the reimbursement was discontinued if it was going to vote. Only logical given that the new legislature to shoot again. In February 2006, the second Berlusconi government, the rule is amended as follows: "In case of dissolution of the payment of refund is made, however. A line that is worth several hundred million euro. "We tried - said Silvana Mura - to change and replace the word" done "with" broken "but we did not succeed." It 's impossible because the credit is constrained. As if turning on a repayment mortgage on that: you can not give it up because then bound.
So it goes. "A generous settlement due to a provision that encourages the outrageous early termination of the term," said Silvana Mura. That accusation: "The parties have found ways to win even on the government crisis."
The report of the Official Gazette, reports that Forza Italy still take 12 million a year until 2011 only the ones that will cash for the repayment of the sixteenth term, the next one. The Olive Tree will take approximately 16 to which it may add the millions who will receive the baby Pd. I wonder if in the consultations we talked about this new "Double or nothing?".
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