Rome, May 31, 2022 – “Referendum flop? It’s the fault of the media that they don’t talk about it. ”The senator makes it easy Giulia Bongiornoattorney at Matteo Salvini and at the forefront of referendums on justice. But the truth is that i five questions on which the Italians will be called to rule on next 12 June they will have a very low percentage of turnout also because the Legawho promoted them with Radicals, is making little effort. For days there has been no talk of anything other than Salvini’s trip – now aborted – to Russia, but it is not that, even before, the League has put them at the center of its propaganda. Unlike, to understand each other, the battle over the land registry (tax decree) or bathing concessions (competition decree).
Of course, in recent days the League has decided to make a move. Starting from midnight today, what is called “a very strong political initiative” will start which, together with the Radicals, aims to raise public awareness and “eradicate the cloak of silence that has fallen on the referendums” complete with a warning letter which will be sent by the vice president of the Senate, Roberto Calderoli, to the Head of State on the guilty silence of the media. But the spots promoted by the League are very few, the banquets a few hundred, the Radicals do what they can but their forces are limited. Not that the other center-right parties help.
Come on Italy supports the five questions and Berlusconi has defined them as “fundamental” to change justice, but the commitment of the Azzurri is not there and it is not visible. Brothers of Italy he did not participate in the collection of signatures and says “no” to two out of five questions (the one on the limits to pre-trial detention and the one on the abolition of the Severino law). Living Italy and Action I am in favor, but these are very small parties. In any case, Renzi blames the very probable flop on the Consulta given that “the three fundamental questions to attract people, those on cannabis, euthanasia and civil liability” (of the magistrates) have been skipped. The M5son the contrary, cheers for the flop, while the Pd has an articulated position. Formally the dem leave “freedom of conscience”, but Enrico Letta specified that “the victory of the yes would be a problem” because “a compact reform of justice (Cartabia, ed) cannot be done with abrogative referendums”.
There is a (small) front in favor of the Yes, however, within the Democratic Party and it is made up of members of the liberal and reformist wing such as Enrico Morando, Stefano Ceccanti, Andrea Marcucciother exponents of the reformist Base, but also of the left inside (Massimiliano Smeriglio and Goffredo Bettini). Their position is summed up by the three yeses (in pre-trial detention, separation of careers, abolition of the Severino law) of the mayor of Bergamo, Giorgio Gori, who wants to “affirm the value of the presumption of innocence and the rights of the defense”.
In any case, the views of the main ones pollsters they are unanimous on the fate of the referendums. According to the latest findings, achieving a quorum is a difficult goal. As we know, to be valid, a referendum must reach a respectable quorum: 50% plus one of those entitled to vote. In the political elections of 2018 (latest data available) the entitled to vote were 46,604,925 citizens (in the Chamber of Deputies, even 18-year-olds must vote) and half plus one is 23,302,426. A figure considered by most to be sidereal.