Dear Editor, postponed a year because of early elections, the referendum marks Guzzetta back-awakening in the majority of current tensions once thought dormant. I ask to go to referendum vote on June 7 in conjunction with the European elections and the first round of administrative.
declared aim is to save a figure indicate that the referendum and the Minister Maroni 400 million in 173. Real purpose is to make use of the simultaneous elections to form a quorum of half plus one of voters prescribed by law for the validity of the referendum. As for the referendum are silent, and many commentators do not say is that - just to ensure that participation is voluntary and not induced artificially - the referendum should not be held to coincide with other elections. Since the law requires that the referendum be held on a Sunday between April 15 and June 15, the only date in June that will satisfy all the previous and every legal requirement is 14. Any other date would require a legislative change that, because of the times, it would require an appeal to the decrees of urgency. But the obligation to set a date being known for over a year, there is no doubt that the conditions of "necessity and urgency" prescribed by the Constitution. The adoption of a law relating to elections may well be justified only if there is a general consensus among the political forces that ensure prompt ratification sanasse the successful override of constitutional legitimacy, consensus - which according to the latest ad - is it possible on the date of 21 but not on that of 7 June.
He added that the combination of the referendum with the elections is not a minor technical matter but a political intervention of large-scale, promoting the success of the referendum would alter profoundly the nature of our political system. The referendum does not answer the door to a major flaw of the current law Election: contrary to what the referendum, while maintaining the blocked lists, the victory of "yes" would restore non-citizens the right to choose their own representatives, while maintaining the secretariats of the parties the power to appoint them to your liking. But this lack of change, the referendum would add an innovation even more ominous: the emergence of "party-coalition" deeply uneven, if the previous parties survive in the form of current organized. Instead of having a limited fragmentation by the use of minimum threshold, we would have an uncontrolled proliferation of old and new groups, united with the sole purpose of achieving the award of the majority, but without a common identity. The difficulties who already feel the Democratic Party and it would come out in the PDL exaggerated. Nor is this the only evil: in place of "multi-moderate", characterized by 5 games over 4%, fully compatible with "bipolar competition" which is the true essence of bipolarity, we led a bipartisan system that forcibly paradoxically would have the right to deny the succession to the center-right and center-left. The timid and even incipient democracy of which we have witnessed in recent years has in fact been made possible by the autonomy compared to the PDL League and UDC, and the center-left voters the ability to intercept IDV otherwise oriented toward ' abstention or radical protest vote. Without the League, UDC, and IdV we would not have a competition but a clear and stable bipolar dominance of the center-right of the center-left. Not a competitive system, with frequent alternation of government and opposition, but the gradual emergence of a dominant party system. Not saving the announced bipartisanship, but a new form of "imperfect bipartisanship." Whenever there was in Italy to a reduction in competition for a direct comparison between left and right as possible without the mediation of central forces, the challenge was in fact awarded the right. Forced to choose between right and left of center moderate voters have always chosen the right: in 1924, in 1948, and again today with Berlusconi. In other words, a reformist left can win and govern in Italy only relinquishing any claim to self-sufficiency and only if supported by independent forces of the center. Adopt a referendum with the election system, destroying the center of each space and autonomy for the parties not aligned, the right would be structurally favored for the center-left and its voters a real form of euthanasia policy. In addition to giving 55% of seats in the most voted list the referendum may put within the reach of even the ruling party to amend the Constitution with 2 / 3 of the votes and no possibility of referendum. One more reason to avoid election day, and not to resort to a decree which not only pose serious problems of constitutionality would be a serious threat to the democracy of.
Stefano Passigli from the Reform of April 16, 2009
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