Hunch. Meloni's majority passed its last security decree in 2025 without a single change, despite loud protests from the opposition.
Resolves YES if, in the text after conversion, police can still take a person aged 14 or over to a police office and hold them for up to 12 hours, with both limits unchanged, and new safeguards such as telling parents or a judge do not change that. It resolves NO if the age goes above 14, the longest hold falls below 12 hours, the rule is removed or the decree lapses, a law that takes over the decree's content is judged on its own text, the market is void if the decree is not published by the end of 31 October 2026, and the Gazzetta Ufficiale, Normattiva and Reuters settle it.
We looked for cases where an Italian government used an emergency decree to create a crime, or raise punishment, for behaviour at protests, sports events or other public gatherings. We found nine such decrees since 2001. Parliament made every one of them law within its 60 days, and changed eight of the nine on the way.