„Today everyone’s telling me that there aren’t the right number of people to change the Porcellum electoral law and thus it’s only possible to make some slight corrections (associated with the possible intervention of the Constitutional Court) and thus risk making the current electoral law even worse. I don’t know whether that’s true, but certainly this line of reasoning is OK for today. On 28 May, the conditions for doing this were all there and if it wasn’t done it’s because Letta, Franceschini, Finocchiaro and the PD’s top brass didn’t want to. Consequently, and I fear I’m not wrong, we’ll be going into new elections with this law or with one even worse, without having managed to achieve something that all Italians would expect: that they can chose the people to represent them. And we are the main ones responsible for this situation. This has to be said.”

Roberto Giachetti, PD, Vice President of the Lower House