Italicum 2.0, what changes with the amendments Finocchiaro – Il Sole 24 Ore

Italicum 2.0, what changes with the amendments Finocchiaro – Il Sole 24 Ore

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This article was published on December 10, 2014 at 11:04.
The last change is the December 10, 2014 at 12:03.

In the Senate work in progress for the Italicum. The time for such touches to electoral reform examination in the second reading of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs is scheduled for 20 tonight (tomorrow for sub-amendments), but the changes of reference, for Pd and Forza Italy, has asked yesterday rapporteur dem Anna Finocchiaro. The debate will resume next Monday, hoping to “close” by Christmas. Among the open fronts, including the timing of entry into force of the reform after the reformulation of a odg Calderoli and the deletion of the clause which provided for the restoration of Consultellum, for the Senate, in the case of early voting.

The hinges dell’Italicum 2.0 (so the prime minister has called the translation rules of the covenant of the Nazarene updated after meeting Berlusconi Renzi-November) are the majority of the premium to the list above the 40% of the vote, the list headers blocked (on which the minority dem promises announcing battle with Miguel Gotor sub-amendments to eliminate them), and a minimum threshold to 3 percent.

Award majority with 40% of the vote
The main novelty of the amendments filed yesterday by the rapporteur regards the majority of the premium. This is the portion to the maximum of 340 seats to be awarded to the winning list, and not the coalition, which has achieved a number of valid votes at least 40% (and not 37%, as in the text approved in the House March) of the national total.

list headers blocked and preferences
Translating norm in the agreement Pd-Fi on list headers blocked and preferences, the amendments provide that Finocchiaro ‘ad exclusion of the leaders, alongside the name of each candidate “are reported” two rectangles for the expression of the first and second preference. “

Alternation gender obliged
Apart to vote to the list and thus also the leaders, the rapporteur’s proposal therefore provides a maximum of two preferences, with the obligation of alternate gender. Each voter in fact “have one vote for the choice of the list, to be expressed in a single card bearing the mark of each list and the names of its candidates. It can also express one or two preference votes “with the second but it must go to a candidate of the opposite sex from that of the former. The proposed amendment provides that “the candidates are placed in the list according to an alternate order of the sort.” “To be accepted on the list,” the total number of candidates in the colleges leaders of each division will not “be no more than sixty percent of candidates of the same sex, with rounding up.”

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