New electoral law, appeals filed throughout Italy against the Stabilicum

Appeals against the new electoral law have been filed in 25 Italian courts. Promoted by the Network for a free and equal vote, the requests were "presented simultaneously" and "made on a common basis", specifies Roberto Zaccaria, coordinator of the Network which brings together around thirty civil society associations. The Stabilicum, definitively approved by Parliament, is an essentially proportional system with a governability bonus that is triggered under certain conditions, preferences but with blocked list leaders, threshold and name of the prime minister candidate indicated by the coalition (but not on the ballot paper). Among the applicants, who are said to be "over 300", is also the former prime minister Romano Prodi.

Appeals against the electoral law

For Zaccaria, this is "something unprecedented" and "civil society picks up the relay baton from those who have expressed parliamentary opposition". The appeals "were presented in 25 courts where there are appellate courts", added Pietro Adami, who coordinated a network of 110 lawyers. “There will be more because linguistic appeals affecting linguistic minorities such as Valle d'Aosta and Rome for constituencies abroad will be added", he added.