In Tuscany there was the first case after the approval of the regional law. Despite having been challenged by the government. And the vice premier: “We must respect the provisions of the Constitutional Court”
“There is no right to suicide, we are for palliative care.” Thus, the deputy premier, Antonio Tajani explained the work that the center -right intends to carry out for a law that answers the end of life, “respecting the dictates of the Court”.
In the Senate, the discussion of the bill “provisions on medically assisted death” It is scheduled for July 17, «So we will go on with a unitary proposal. Now they are working to refine things, “said the national secretary of Forza Italia.
At the majority meeting at Palazzo Chigi, among the topics addressed there was the urgency to regulate the demand for anticipation of death. With the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloniwith Tajani and the other vice premier, Matteo Salvinithe ministers of justice were brought together around the table, Carlo Nordioof the family, Eugenia Roccellaof health, Orazio Schillaciand some exponents of parliamentary groups.
Among the hypotheses on how to proceed in the drafting of the unified text, the one that the majority would see more in agreement is the creation of a national ethical committee, composed of members appointed by decree of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. “It is a proposal of mine” that “I had formulated for some time to the different parties” and “it seems to me that it is shared by everyone”, also because the cases that are expected should “be limited”, has required to clarify the Senator of Forza Italia Pierantonio Zanettin, according to which the bill “It is still on the high seas”.
The penultimate small committee should be summoned next week. Instead, the idea of involving a protective judge does not seem to find unanimous consensus because it decides, according to the individual case, whether to authorize the end -of -life treatment that should be administered at the expense and with staff of the National Health Service.
The scheme of the bill wants to conform to the dictation of the judgments of the Constitutional Court of 2019 and 2024, So the first two articles establish the “inviolable and unavailable right” to the life and the limits of the intervention, or the conditions of irreversible pathology, of intolerable suffering, the ability of free and aware decisions and the treatment of vital support. A lot of attention is paid to the palliative care that must be offered to the patient.
“Between therapeutic fury and euthanasia, to which I personally say no, there is the third way, that of palliative care: they give dignity to the patient. It is a question of civilization and democracy “, the Vice -President CEI, Monsignor Francesco Savino, recalled yesterday, underlining that” on this legislative path we need everyone’s co -responsibility “.
For the left, on the end of life it is an act a blitz of the majority. Instead of being a theme “left to the freedom of consciousness of the parliamentarians” it would like to “put hand” the government, protests the group leader of the Democratic Party in the Senate, Francesco Boccia. Thus, “would arrive in the Senate an armored text that will not be changed. We are faced with an intolerable choice, we are faced with the irrelevant of Parliament, the teasing of the opposition “, he thundered, claiming that” this right has a sort of theocratic regime in mind “.
On Tuesday’s summit there was no spoken of the third mandate “but we remain against, we do not change positions”he specified as for Tajani’s rest, adding that “then you must also do it for the mayors and becomes too complicated a thing”. Nor was the candidates for the next regional ones were discussed. When asked if the candidate for Veneto will be chosen before the summer, the Foreign Minister replied: “Let’s see, there are so many things. They are struggling with wars and commercial wars. Between tomorrow and the day after tomorrow (today and tomorrow for the reader, editor’s note) about 80 Palestinians arrive in Italy, including little Adam, which will be treated at the Niguarda in Milan ».
