Porcellum could resist, at least for this year. Today the Constitutional Court met in a public hearing to discuss the legitimacy of the electoral law, but at the end of the meeting it decided to set a closed session on the admissibility of a referendum for January 14: that could be the day of the decision provided that the Court deems the question admissible.
The issue concerns in particular two aspects of the Porcellum: the majority bonus in the Chamber with no minimum threshold and blocked lists, which prevent voters from expressing preferences.
"Any doubt about the admissibility" of the appeal on the electoral law would be unfounded and specious, said the lawyer Aldo Bozzi, promoter of the appeals, in the hearing before the Constitutional Court. “This was the only action that could be proposed to protect free and direct voting, arbitrarily violated by the Porcellum – he added -. With this law the voter's right to individual choice was unreasonably suppressed”.
