The proposal of the majority rapporteur in the Authorization Committee was approved by secret ballot with 206 votes in favor and 133 against. The current president, Anna Ascani, intervened several times to call some opposition deputies to order. The majority speaker Pietro Pittalis argued that the denial would not prevent the magistrates from continuing the investigations. “You are preparing to shield a party friend, compressing the right of defense of a citizen,” he stated. The parliamentarians of the Green Alliance and the Left blindfolded themselves during Elisabetta Piccolotti’s speech.