Reform Minister Maria Elena Boschi
said Thursday that the government's bill to revamp the Senate
can be amended but must not be "turned on its head".
"The government is always willing to improve the text," she
said of the bill, whose first passage through the Senate has
been badly hit by obstructionism from opposition groups.
Boschi blasted the obstructionism, which means that only a
handful of the almost 8,000 amendments to the bill have so far
been voted on, as damaging.
"We'll keep going. It's not serious to conduct
obstructionism in this way. It affects the dignity of this
institution," she said.
The government is aiming to complete the bill's first
passage in the Senate before parliament's summer recess next
month.
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