The referendum is an important tool in the hands of citizens and citizens. It is also thanks to this legal institution that in Italy it is possible to divorce and terminate a pregnancy, water has remained public and nuclear power plants can no longer be built. Like all fundamental tools for the proper functioning of the democratic system, the referendum must be used with care. The League, on the other hand, exploited it to try to get out of its difficulties, relying on propaganda. And then she disinterested in it. To the point that it hasn’t even tried to get people to vote. In referendums, unlike elections, there is a quorum, which can give a different meaning to non-voting by transforming abstention into a way to express a precise choice, into a political gesture without any qualunquistic connotations. Not voting can be used to say: this is not right, we want the referendums to be respected.
The point – Giovanni De Mauro
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