There will be two unpublished chambers, reduced by about 30% of parliamentarians, which will meet at the end of October after the elections are passed. The constitutional reform introduced in 2020 has reduced the number of MPs from 630 to 400 and the number of elected senators from 315 to 200, plus five senators for life. An unprecedented situation with questions on parliamentary activity.
While the shearing will solve the atavistic problems of the working spaces for parliamentarians and parliamentary groups, questions about the functionality of the bodies arise, especially for the Senate. Next week, the Palazzo Madama room will reduce the number of permanent commissions from 14 to 10, merging some of them (Foreign Affairs and Defence, Environment and Public Works, Industry and Agriculture, Labor and Health). However, the small and medium-sized groups will have one or two senators on each commission, which will prevent their specialization and require greater use of outside technicians and departmental legislators. The other problem concerns the bicameral commissions and bodies like Copasir, Rai Vigilanza, Antimafia. These must, for example, avoid meeting in connection with the House and Senate standing committees in the early afternoon (when there are not two classrooms), otherwise the quorum will be missed in one or the other. For the bicamerals, calls come at sunrise or sunset.
There are no such problems for the Chamber, while journalists will find it easier to remember the names and faces of 600 elected officials than 915.
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