Hearings by experts and constitutional scholars on the new electoral law have begun in the Chamber's Constitutional Affairs Committee. The text, according to the decision of the last meeting of the leaders of the groups at Montecitorio, is scheduled for the floor on Monday, September 28.
"Beware of the heterogenesis of ends," warns Professor Azzariti, heard today along with other experts on the electoral law - comments Filiberto Zaratti, leader of the AVS group in the committee. "That is, the hypothesis is emerging that the intervention of the High Court will ultimately have the final say, with the possible result - since it cannot strike down the law in its entirety - that we will end up with a proportional list vote. There are too many critical aspects in the text in its third reading in the Chamber: candidates on the list who cannot be identified by voters, gender parity effectively abolished, the signatures to be collected for lists not represented in parliament acting as a 'hidden threshold barrier,' as Professor Ainis put it, and the same number of signatures required in all regions, with an objectively disproportionate effect. With debate being strangled, to the point that a confidence vote is being discussed, and a majority that refuses to listen, the risk is that the electoral law will ultimately be decided by the Court, and this right-wing majority will have prevented parliament from producing a constitutionally valid text. It will be the political failure of the right."
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