On Tuesday 13 November, Italia dei Valori will lay before the 1° Commissione Affari Costituzionali a proposal to modify the amendment of the sponsor in relation to the impossibility of convicts to be Parliamentary candidates.

Carlo Costantini leads Italia dei Valori at the 1° Commissione Affari Costituzionali and he will present a sub-amendment to extend the effect of this to even a single day spent in prison.
After various discussions about the type of crime and the sentence to be taken into consideration to exclude convicts from Parliament, what has arrived with the 1° Commissione Affari Costituzionali of the Lower House, is the proposal of the Partito Democratico’s sponsor who has finally shown his cards with his amendment.
The sponsor’s amendment would exclude from Parliament only those who have been actually sentenced to two years imprisonment for unintentional crimes.
What is written down for crimes like corruption for an official action, fraud in public supplies, falsity of a public official in public acts, kidnapping, and fraud, sets out sentences with a maximum that is over 2 years but with a minimum that is often below that.
In reality then, what happens at the end of a trial is very different in our country. In fact in most cases the sentences given for the crimes mentioned here are often less than two years.
It’s evident that in relation to this we will respond by Tuesday 13 November which is the deadline to present any sub-amendments that there may be, with the only counter-proposal that is possible at this stage of the legislative process: a sub-amendment to extend the prohibition on being a candidate to those who have been sentenced to even one day of prison.