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ITALY: FI Vote Against Gov't Comes As Blow To Coalition Unity

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The governing coalition of PM Giorgia Meloni has shown the clearest signals of cracks developing to date following the 27 November parliamentary vote that saw the centre-right Forza Italia (FI) vote with the opposition to defeat a bill that would regulate fees for state broadcaster RAI. While the legislation is not a gov't priority, the fact that the FI voted against the gov't will come as a worrying sign for Meloni ahead of more important legislation, namely the 2025 budget. Bloomberg: "Government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Meloni’s team at Palazzo Chigi was annoyed by the stumble in Parliament but insisted that it won’t stop the coalition from continuing its work."

  • The vote in the Chamber of Deputies was not the only one this week where the coalition parties ended up on different sides. In the European Parliament vote on the incoming European Commission, FI and Meloni's national-conservative Brothers of Italy (FdI) backed the second Commission of President Ursula von der Leyen. However, Deputy PM Matteo Salvini's right-wing populist League voted against it. League MEP Paolo Borchia blamed "the low political quality of most commissioners, except [Italy's] Raffaele Fitto and [Hungary's] Oliver Varhelyi" for the opposition.
  • While the votes do not yet signal any significant issues within the gov't, they gave opportunities for the opposition to criticise the gov't. They also come a short time after the parties of gov't recorded poor results in the Emilia-Romagna and Umbria regional elections in mid-November. 
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The governing coalition of PM Giorgia Meloni has shown the clearest signals of cracks developing to date following the 27 November parliamentary vote that saw the centre-right Forza Italia (FI) vote with the opposition to defeat a bill that would regulate fees for state broadcaster RAI. While the legislation is not a gov't priority, the fact that the FI voted against the gov't will come as a worrying sign for Meloni ahead of more important legislation, namely the 2025 budget. Bloomberg: "Government officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Meloni’s team at Palazzo Chigi was annoyed by the stumble in Parliament but insisted that it won’t stop the coalition from continuing its work."

  • The vote in the Chamber of Deputies was not the only one this week where the coalition parties ended up on different sides. In the European Parliament vote on the incoming European Commission, FI and Meloni's national-conservative Brothers of Italy (FdI) backed the second Commission of President Ursula von der Leyen. However, Deputy PM Matteo Salvini's right-wing populist League voted against it. League MEP Paolo Borchia blamed "the low political quality of most commissioners, except [Italy's] Raffaele Fitto and [Hungary's] Oliver Varhelyi" for the opposition.
  • While the votes do not yet signal any significant issues within the gov't, they gave opportunities for the opposition to criticise the gov't. They also come a short time after the parties of gov't recorded poor results in the Emilia-Romagna and Umbria regional elections in mid-November.