The 2017 seems to be a load of air from the elections so, in a country constantly on the campaign trail, we can’t talk about the rules of the game before starting to play. I refer to the hit winter destined to stay in the top of the charts again for a while: the electoral law.
let’s Start with the examination of the situation today. Currently there are in force two different electoral laws: the Italicum to the room and the Consultellum for the senate. At this time, therefore, it is not possible to go to elections because it is necessary there is an agreement between the electoral laws of the two assemblies. You’re probably wondering: in a democratic country like Italy, which even has two electoral laws (when it would take more than a single one) it is not possible to vote? Why we got to this point?
Good questions. The referendum on 4 December, provided for the abolition of the direct election of senators, and therefore, the Italicum, the law designed to harmonize with the Constitutional reform and in force by may after parliamentary approval, did not take into consideration the Senate that in the event of a improbabilissima victory of the no in the referendum (hahaha!) would have left palazzo Madama, free of the electoral law.
and Then a referendum where the choices are two (yes or no) the government shows up with an electoral law approved in parliament and signed by mr. Sergio Mattarella (former judge of the constitutional court) that in 50% of cases will not work. Well in the event of failure of the reform, there will certainly be a plan B to overcome this problem. No, absolutely not! The rest is history: he won the no, the prime minister resigns, is built a new government that seems to look like (just a bit) to the previous and to the cry of popular elections from Rome respond in chorus "I Would but I can’t".
Calm, everything is under control: the new government will accelerate the promulgation of an election law and we are going to vote. Maybe. Each party has ideas divergent so the important thing is to have it tailored to to win or to lose the other.
Excluding the formulation of a new electoral law from scratch, which probably would take too much time, all that remains is to look to the past and riesumarne a already ready, or even more immediate to extend the Italicum in the senate and go to vote. Following the first way (the one of the exhumation) you find as a possible "new" electoral law the Consultellum and the Mattarellum.
The Consultellum is the evolution of the Porcellum, which has changed its name after the judgment of the consulta (hence the name). This law is already ready and it is definitely constitutional, it is already in effect in the Senate, therefore, it would be enough to extend the Room and then go to vote. Imposes a proportional system that best offers representation of voters in parliament and includes the possibility of expressing a preference. Option so simple to follow but with some defects: the proportional might create stalls in the absence of broad coalitions, also could not be presented before the council to speak on the old one (the Italicum).
another option is to go back to Mattarellum, the law that is named after its rapporteur, the current president of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, and proposes a hybrid system between majoritarian and proportional. For enthusiasts: it offers a simple majority to 75% of the parliamentary seats and proportional representation for the seats remaining with the particularity that in the chamber, the proportional is the list locked while the senate is going to "fish out" the highest rated non-elect. This law is slightly more complex but is probably a compromise that could put all agree. Only problem: it’s the law in 2001, has unleashed the case of the lists owl, lists devoid of any political basis, but useful, in order not to lose votes to the most famous parties are connected.
the Last possibility in the short term is the extension of the Italicum in the Senate after having applied corrections to the constitutional court, which will examine the law on the 24th of January. You need to know that the geniuses that wrote this law not only have left us no rules for the election of senators, but also contains several traces of unconstitutionality. A disaster. In this case, therefore, the electoral law is yet to be change, and we do not know at which points as long as you do not pronounce the Consult. Likely to be modified or abolished the monstrous prize of the majority and removed the capilista blocked, hindering the direct election of their representatives.
in Short, all the yet to be defined, and while there is azzuffa to decide which is the best method to gather the most votes possible in the background, the government Gentiloni continues his adventure in twilight and this strange desire for anonymity generates scents to hit the scene, after all, for 403 deputies and 193 senators must not trigger the right to a pension from the parliamentary. Do you want to not that this is going to end in September 2017, at which time most of the "graduates," you get to the coveted finish line?
In the meantime, Hollywood are already asking for the name of the director, the supreme writer of this comedy, which initially seemed to be the usual, and now indigestible cinepanettone, must be at least nominated for the next Oscar, but the humble writer takes time because in this film, unfortunately for us, is not yet complete.
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