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Today and tomorrow we are voting throughout Italy for the constitutional referendum on reducing the number of parliamentarians in the Chamber and Senate by a third, but also for other things: in seven regions (Aosta Valley, Veneto, Liguria, Tuscany, Marche, Campania and Puglia) there is a vote to renew regional councilors, in almost a thousand municipalities for the administrative elections and in two schools in Sardinia and Veneto for the supplementary elections of the Senate. The polling stations will be open today from 7am to 11pm and tomorrow from 7am to 3pm.
As the Ministry of the Interior recalled, “all voters must go to vote with a mask and wear it in compliance with current regulations.” There will also be disinfectant gels at the entrance of the polling stations and measures will be taken to distance people and disinfect pencils and spaces.
According to data provided by the Ministry of the Interior, “there are 46,641,856 voters called to intervene for the constitutional referendum and 18,473,922 for the regional elections.” On the other hand, the citizens residing in the 962 municipalities in which they vote are just under 6 million.
The ballots will be counted in this order: supplementary, referendum and regional; and then, starting Tuesday morning, the municipal elections will be voted on.
The referendum on the number of parliamentarians
It is a constitutional referendum on the reduction of one third of the number of parliamentarians in the Chamber and the Senate, as a result of the constitutional reform approved in early October 2019 with the favorable vote of practically all parties. It became necessary after 71 senators from various parties signed the request to hold a constitutional referendum, which was possible to request because constitutional reforms have a special parliamentary process. This is the referendum that was supposed to take place on March 29, but which had been postponed due to the coronavirus epidemic.
The referendum on the number of parliamentarians is the fourth constitutional referendum in the history of the Italian Republic: the other three were the referendum on Title V in 2001, the referendum on the center-right constitutional reform in 2006 and the one on constitutional reform desired by the PD in 2016. Constitutional referendums do not provide for a quorum, that is, the vote of a minimum percentage of those who have the right to vote: the result is, therefore, valid regardless of the number of voters.
On the website of the Ministry of the Plenary you can find a series of questions and answers about the referendum and how to vote for certain categories of people. The card, very simple, is like this.
– Read also: The referendum on the number of parliamentarians, explained
Regional elections
Voting takes place at the same time as the constitutional referendum in seven regions: six with ordinary statute (Tuscany, Puglia, Marche, Campania, Veneto, Liguria) and one with special statute (Valle d’Aosta). In the six regions with ordinary statutes, the new president is directly elected: votes are cast in a single round in all regions, with the exception of Tuscany, where a vote is foreseen if no one in the first round reaches 40 percent of the votes. The discourse continues to be different for Valle d’Aosta, where the president is not elected by the citizens, but elected by the new Regional Council. There will also be five new municipalities, in which, therefore, voting will take place for the first time.
Even in the case of regional elections, the ministry has provided a series of questions and answers. More information can be found on the websites of the individual regions.
– Read also: Brief guide to regional elections
Municipal elections
Among the almost 1,000 municipalities in which it votes there are 18 provincial capitals, three of which – Venice, Trento and Aosta – are also regional capitals. The largest municipality to vote is Venice. Also in this case, on the website of the Ministry of the Interior there are questions and answers about the administrative.
By-elections
As the website of the Ministry of the Interior explains, in the case of these elections, whose objective is to elect the representatives of the vacant schools, “those who have the right to vote are 467,122 for Sardinia (plurinominal college 01 – uninominal college 03 Sassari) and 352,696 for Veneto (Plurinominal College 02 – Uninominal College 09 Villafranca di Verona) “. The seats were left vacant after the deaths of Vittoria Bogo Deledda and Stefano Bertacco.
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