The question, so dear to the 5 Stars, had been put on hold for a few months, but now it suddenly returns to the news: the constitutional referendum on cutting the number of parliamentarians is closer, after the necessary signatures have been collected to request the consultation. According to sources from the Einaudi Foundation, promoter of the collection of signatures, the target of the 65 senators needed to hold the constitutional referendum it would be within reach, if not outright outdated. The official will arrive today with a press conference in the Chamber, in which the adhesions received will be announced and the initiatives to be undertaken in view of January 12, the deadline set by law for the achievement of the objective, will be communicated.
This means, consequently, that in the event of early elections, the old system would be used to vote, i.e. by electing the usual 945 MPs (630 deputies and 315 senators), and not half as envisaged by the law already approved last 8 October but in any case to be submitted for consultation, as well as possibly accompanied by a consequent reform of the electoral law. All of this, according to the predominant interpretation, would be a signal that early elections are approaching: if the current legislature were to end in the coming months, in the period in which the procedures for the referendum will be underway, we will return to the polls to elect the current number of MPs and probably also with the current electoral law.
