In a few minutes, the text converting the Security Decree into law was approved in the Chamber with the text identical to that issued by the Senate, including the controversial amendment, amid protests from the opposition and opposing chants: Hello beautiful on the opposition benches, Mameli’s anthem on those of the majority. A context which has been affected by the repeated references to 25 April and to the Constitution.
As is known, there was a heavy constitutional doubt over the text regarding the right of defence, due to the amendment that rewarded lawyers if their migrant clients chose the path of voluntary repatriation. The solution, even to the doubts leaked from the Quirinale, was found in the immediate approval of another law decree which served to correct the amendment included in the conversion law of the first: the rule which provides that only a lawyer can take the contribution of 615 euros for assistance to the migrant, and above all the compensation is foreseen at the end of the administrative procedure and not linked to the repatriation. The reference to the National Forensic Council indicated as one of the entities with which the Ministry of the Interior collaborates to implement the assisted voluntary repatriation programs and which was entrusted with the function, judged improper by the interested parties, of distributing the compensation for the repatriate’s lawyer is no longer present. Intervention will also need to be made to clarify the representatives who can carry out the repatriation assistance activity and for the payment of the related compensation.
It is clear that the correction through a new decree is an irregular fact, the issue is now under the lens of the Quirinale which will scrutinize every comma before signing.
