Adnkronos (Adnkronos) – The use of legislative decrees, the reference to secondary sources, and the need to ensure clear deadlines for legislative production were the focus of the presentation of the Chamber of Deputies' report on the 2026 legislation today at the Lazio Regional Council. Anna Ascani, Vice President of the Chamber, opened the proceedings, thanking the Regional Council and President Antonello Aurigemma, emphasizing the importance of a shared reflection with the Conference of the Regions.
The report confirms the weight of legislative decrees and the reliance on secondary sources, while Ascani highlighted the risks of growing political polarization: without fair parliamentary debate, especially on complex issues, decisions can be perceived by citizens as the result of choices made far from their own. Hence the need to strengthen the quality of the deliberative process through data and dialogue between the majority and the opposition.
Among the tools to bring citizens closer to Parliament is an artificial intelligence-based chatbot, used to provide natural language responses to the report's content.
Riccardo De Corato, Chairman of the Chamber's Legislative Committee, noted that the body was established with the 1997 reform to combine rapid decision-making with more informed and efficient deliberation, through shared dialogue between the majority and the opposition.
The reform, which concluded in September 2025 after launching in March of the same year, will be implemented by the next legislature and also includes the examination of decree laws. Francesco Clementi, full professor of comparative public law at Sapienza University of Rome, identified among the main critical issues emerging from the report the growing weight of decree laws, the precariousness of the law, the increased use of delegated legislation, and issues related to secondary legislation. Clementi also emphasized the need to strengthen dialogue between European institutions and national parliaments, emphasizing that "the problem with legislation is the lack of a clear timeframe." Certainty of timeframes, provided they are appropriate to the complexity of the issues, represents, according to the professor, an element of democracy protection: "Slowness becomes a choice if it is a good slowness."
Giulio Maria Salerno, full professor of constitutional and public law at the University of Macerata, explored the relationship between regional and European legislation, highlighting the growth of EU legislative activity, the prevalence of regulations over directives, and the need to improve the quality of legislation and the role of parliaments. The session concluded with a closing remarks by Antonello Aurigemma, President of the Lazio Regional Council, who emphasized the importance of a thorough reflection on the role of the regions and recalled the discussions initiated in Maratea to evaluate the effects of the reform, identifying aspects that have worked and those requiring improvement.
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