Appeal against the electoral law lodged in court in Cagliari

The appeal against the Presidency of the Council of Ministers to challenge the constitutional legitimacy of the new electoral law n.180 of 2026 was filed this morning before the ordinary Court of Cagliari.

The appeal, signed by lawyers Giovanni Dore, Carlo Augusto Melis and Alessandro Tedde, has garnered broad consensus in Sardinian civil society, involving leading personalities from the academic, legal, institutional, political and cultural world. Among the appellants are the constitutionalists Pietro Ciarlo, Gianmario Demuro and Andrea Deffenu, two former presidents of the Sardinia Region - Federico Palomba and Gianmario Selis - the former Rector of the University of Cagliari Maria Del Zompo, the academics and jurists Francesco Sitzia, Andrea Pubusa and Carlo Dore jr. Numerous representatives of civil society also joined.

The initiative promoted in Cagliari is part of a broader national action, coordinated with the network of lawyers which refers to Roberto Zaccaria, Pietro Adami, Federico Grosso and Maria Agostina Cabiddu. The network will promote similar appeals before the courts of the other 25 Italian Court of Appeal locations, giving rise to a widespread initiative throughout the national territory, aimed at submitting questions of legitimacy of the new electoral law to the Constitutional Court.

There are eight reasons for the appeal. The legal action arises from the belief that the new electoral discipline presents "serious aspects of conflict with the fundamental principles of the Constitution, in particular with the equality of the vote, the freedom of voters to choose their representatives, political pluralism and the balance of the parliamentary form of government", explain the promoters of the appeal.