La Constitutional Court he judged the referendum on euthanasia is inadmissible. The initiative had been promoted by the Luca Coscioni Association, which had collected one million and 200 thousand signatures.
According to the constitutional judges, "the question is inadmissible because, following the repeal, albeit partial, of the law on the murder of the consenting person, the constitutionally necessary minimum protection of human life, in general, and with particular reference to people weak and vulnerable".
In fact, the decision of the Consulta is of do not cut parts of article 579 of the Penal Code, because what would remain in force would lend itself to abuses to the detriment of the weakest.
The law on euthanasia
The choice of judges, however, has no consequences for the law channeled (and bogged down) in Parliament. On the contrary, the pronouncement has prompted many politicians to ask to take back that text as soon as possible to remedy a serious Italian legislative vacuum.
For the secretary of the Democratic Party, Enrico Letta, "Parliament must now approve the law on assisted suicide according to the indications of the Court". And Giuseppe Conte, in the meeting of M5S parliamentarians, says that now "we need to run more decisively and urge the other political forces to carry on that law".
Questions about cannabis and justice
Today the Constitutional Court will have to decide on seven other possible referendums: the liberalization of cannabis for personal use plus six questions on justice, which include the clear separation of judges' functions (in fact, the separation of careers), "direct" civil liability of magistrates and the total cancellation of the Severino law on the ineligibility and forfeiture of convicted politicians.
