The hearing of the Constitutional Court on the electoral law has been set for January 24th. After the postponement to a date to be determined, set for October, there is now a certain date, even if not close.
The constitutional judges will have to express themselves on six possible profiles of unconstitutionality contained in the Italicum and concerning some of the cornerstones of the law, from the majority premium to the ballot, passing through the blocked list leaders.
A fundamental step to know the political future of the country. It is unlikely that the date for new elections will be established before the judges express their opinion on the electoral law currently in force and which the main political parties have already promised to modify. The date therefore removes the possibility of returning to the polls as early as February, also because Parliament would not even have the time to work on a new law or on any changes, and postpones possible early elections towards late spring-summer.
According to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, in the speech in which he announced his intention to resign, the burden of producing a proposal passes into the hands of the supporters of the No in the constitutional referendum. If the 5 Star Movement seems to have retraced its steps, promoting the extension of the Italicum to the Senate with some changes (a few months ago the law was defined as "fascist" on Beppe Grillo's blog), Matteo Salvini says he wants to go immediately to elections with any electoral system, even if his preference would be for an electoral system based on single-member constituencies (similar to the Mattarellum). Silvio Berlusconi instead, contradicting the majority approach supported in the Second Republic, advocates an electoral reform based on proportional representation.
After the national direction on Wednesday 7 December, it will be understood whether the Democratic Party will formalize the agreement reached before the referendum on the changes to the Italicum in a bill.
