Morning papers anticipated the final secret-ballot vote on the electoral law at 12:30 after three confidence votes, with Meloni declaring herself calm and the centre-right summoned to hold discipline amid opposition charges that the rules penalised women.
By late morning the Chamber approved the text, dubbed Melonellum/Stabilicum, with 227 yes to 164 no, Meloni hailing a united majority and voter choice while Schlein and Conte denounced a “truffa” and vowed a Constitutional Court challenge, with papers already discussing contents and a possible early vote in June.
Attention then shifted outward to Ukraine after Russian strikes on two civilian buses in Kramatorsk left 33 dead and to Brussels where Dombrovskis backed Italy and Greece’s safeguard requests but rejected further fiscal flexibility, alongside the Nobel in Literature to Anne Carson and a hacker attack on the Farnesina.