Referendum, the victory of the Yes completes the reform on the reduction of parliamentarians: from the next legislature they fall from 945 to 600

Go ahead with the cut. While the ballot is still in its early stages, the Yes to constitutional referendum about him parliamentary court It already seems clear and overwhelming: according to all the first polls, the green light for reform is largely given above 60%, in some cases more than 65, almost 70. An announced victory, given that throughout the electoral campaign the polls have always given the Not very distant: they should not reach 40%, probably stopping near thirty. Since the next legislature, therefore, I parliamentarians will go from 945 to 600. The deputies will go through 630 a 400, and senators yes 315 a 200. The reform, in fact, modifies the three articles of the Charter on the number of elected officials: 56, 57 and 59. In practice it reduces thethe number of the chosen between the House and the Senate of 36.5%.

“What we have achieved today is a historic result. Let’s go back to having a normal Parliament, with 345 seats and fewer privileges. It is politics that gives a signal to citizens. Without the 5 Star Movement, all this would never have happened ”, he wrote on Facebook after the first data was published. Luigi di maio, chancellor and former political leader of the 5 star movement. His successor, Vito Crimi, was the first political leader to issue an official statement: “I learned in these hours of the projections that give a historic and extraordinary result. I thank everyone who went to vote in this period of Covid emergency ”.

The court of parliamentarians is a flag law of the 5 star movement, which includes it in the government contract signed with League in June 2018. Content of the draft constitutional law presented by Riccardo Fraccaro, minister of relations with the parliament of the yellow-green government, adopts a bill presented by Gaetano Quagliarello of Go Italy, as well as the similar project presented by P.S in 2008. The reform was approved for the first time in Senate in February 2019 (185 votes in favor, that is, 59%, 54 against and 4 abstentions), goes to the Chamber on May 9, which dismisses her by 310 yes (49%), 107 no and 5 abstentions. To return to Madama Palace July 11, collects 180 votes in favor (57%) and 50 against. The majority in that case is therefore less than two thirds of the components required by the Constitution to make referendum requests inadmissible.

In August of the same year Matteo salvini it takes away support from the government. After a month of negotiations, the Conte 2 government was born, supported by the alliance Pd-M5s. The first point on the agenda of the new executive is precisely the cut in parliamentarians that is approved in second reading in Montecitorio on October 8 with 553 votes in favor, l ‘88 percent of voters14 against and two abstentions: practically the entire constitutional period votes in favor of the reform. In a few weeks, however, the right-wing parties reconsider. Go Italy me League -who voted for the cut four out of four times in Parliament- collected the signatures of 71 senators, the minimum necessary to request the referendum. Originally scheduled for March 29, 2020, the referendum vote was postponed due to the coronavirus. Election day with regional and administrative authorities includes the fourth constitutional referendum in history, the second to be approved. The first is 2001, when 64% of voters approve of the Title V reform of the Charter, approved by the majority of the Union during the years of government Prodi, D’Alema and Amato. Then it is the turn of the referendum of the Berlusconi government (the so-called return of 2006, rejected by 61% of voters) and that of the Renzi government in 2016: 59% reject the reform project of the former mayor of Florence that resigns as prime minister.