Referendum, Sicilia case: with the court it would be the least represented region of Italy



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A deadweight loss of 29 MPs out of 77 across the island and the prospect of western Sicily becoming the least represented part of Italy in the Chambers. The cut in deputies and senators on which Italians will have to pronounce on September 20 and 21 would bring the number of parliamentarians elected on the island to 48: the law sets the number of deputies elected in western Sicily at 15 (compared to 25 today), for 17 (instead of 27) those in the eastern part of the island and 16 (instead of 25) the seats that Sicilians occupy in the Senate.

The number of seats is not a second-order detail: in the projections made by the House Studies Service during the approval phase of the law, Western Sicily actually becomes the college with the most voters for each deputy, given that one seat will be shot. every 157,698 residents surveyed by the last census, that of 2011. A little better goes to the east of Sicily, in sixth place with 155,144 inhabitants each deputy: a quota that, however, is very far from the 126,806 residents needed for each seat in the Aosta Valley, the 144,509 in Basilicata and the 145,257 in Abruzzo.

In the Senate the situation is substantially the same: here the island occupies the seventh place with one seat for every 312,682 inhabitants, slightly less than three times those necessary for Valle d’Aosta (126,806) and more or less double the number of voters needed in Molise (156,830), Trentino Alto Adige (171,579 adding those of the two autonomous provinces) and Basilicata (192,679). It must be said, however, that, for the moment, not all seats have been assigned to Sicilian politicians: due to the too great victory of the 5 Star Movement in the last round, which had exhausted the Sicilian candidates by electing them all , four seats in the House. and one in the Senate was not attributed to candidates from the island, but was redistributed to the rest of Italy always fishing on the Cinquestelle charts.

The new rules, on the other hand, would give more power to the Regions, and consequently also to Sicily, for the election of the President of the Republic: 58 delegates speak of the Regions, which would not decrease, and all the parliamentarians, who instead would go from 945 to 600 plus the senators Lifetime.

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