Editor’s Note
This article discusses a contentious Senate bill proposing to empower municipal police and rural guards to issue fixed penalty fines for approximately fifteen specific offenses. While supported by the majority and centrist groups, the measure faces criticism from left-wing opponents who view it as a form of state disengagement.
The Senate is currently examining a bill aimed at expanding the powers of municipal police and rural guards. At the heart of this text, supported by the senatorial majority and other groups of the central bloc, is the possibility for officers to issue fines for a number of offenses caught in the act. It has sparked opposition from part of the left, which sees it as a disengagement by the state and a disguised transfer of sovereign powers to municipalities.
