(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 12 - The government's new migrant decree cracking down on traffickers while removing humanitarian protection will start off its parliamentary approval path in the Senate with all eyes on the protection lifting provision after President Sergio Mattarella's office voiced concern, sources said Sunday.
    The examination of the new decree on migrants, launched by the cabinet in the Calabrian town of Cutro, site of a disaster that killed at least 70 migrants, will begin in the Senate and on Wednesday it should be assigned to the Constitutional Affairs Committee, the sources said.
    Eyes will be focused in particular on possible changes to the measure on special humanitarian protection, on which there has been an interlocution, as is not infrequently the case, between the president's legislative office and that of Premier Giorgia Meloni, before the final text was finalised and then issued by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella.
    The decree as framed removes protection for family links, a provision pushed by the League on which Brothers of Italy and Forza Italia reportedly voiced reservations. (ANSA).