In the past weeks the reunited Commission of Defence and Foreign of the Italian Senate have examined the conversion in law of the DL nr. 152/2009 on the international missions; on its inside there is the codicil 7 of the art. 3, that it prolongs the mandate of the current Military Staff Councils of another year: that is until the 30 July 2011. This is the original text:

"The mandate of the members in charge of the central Council of the Military Staff, let alone of the central, intermediate councils and of base councils of the Army, Navy, Air Forces, the Carabinieri Corps and the Customs corps, elected in the categories of the military staff councils in permanent service and voluntary, is postponed until the 30 July 2011."

The reporter of the Government, has justified the prolong so: "The delay of the current mandate answers to the necessity to assure continuity in the collaboration between the Staff Council of the soldiers and the Administration in a phase, in existence, to definition the new plans of reorder structural of the military instrument and of the rearrange of the military staff’s roles, connected also to the employment of the Armed Forces in the international missions."

First of all, the delay is inserted improperly in the bill of the Government because it does not have anything to do with the international missions; the motivations exposed from the Government in order to justify the use of the bill, do not have anything of necessity and urgency.

The prolong is not necessary because the opinion of the military representation is today not taken in consideration for the arguments on which they are competent for law (like the problematic of the Defense’s lodgings) is figured for the international missions: indeed, if some staff council wanted to take part would come sure to be quite as unqualified on the matter.