The government, in the Senate Justice Committee, requested the postponement of the examination of the defamation bill. The president of the Commission Giulia Bongiorno had called a majority meeting to take stock.
It seemed an agreement had been reached by focusing everything on "title and rectification" but without foreseeing detention. The government, however, today asked to postpone because "further investigations are needed" "No one intends to touch Article 21 of the Constitution. The real issue, and I say this not only as a parliamentarian but also as a professional journalist for almost 40 years, is the effectiveness of rectifications and the restoration of reputation," says Forza Italia senator Maurizio Gasparri. "The only real case that occurred ended with a discussion at the highest levels of the Repubblica precisely because of the outcry over the possibility of a journalist going to prison," he adds. 'We are full of columns of letters that deny in eight fonts and headlines in nine columns on the front page that have affected people who. then, over time, proved to be extraneous.'