A proposal that guarantees governability and, with preferences, representativeness
With all the problems that exist, especially in the economic and energy fields, we do not understand how we can talk about electoral law, but politics is also this and therefore it is right to deal with it.
It all started with the secretary of the Democratic Party Enrico Letta that a few days ago spoke of proportional to settle the alliance with Di Maio And With youbut a sharp no came from the center, including Maria Elena Boschi from Italy Viva who spoke of “mayor of Italy”, an old ball of Renzi. So the Democratic Party has taken the initiative, still all far-fetched, to open a discussion also with the center-right on a proportional law with a majority premium to the winning list or coalition of lists that exceeded the threshold of 40% of the votes.
A kind of Italicum as well as dismembered by the Constitutional Court, but with coalitions and probably also with preferences. From the center-right came an opening by the Brothers of Italy, while the League remained cold. The same Salvini he said that an electoral law already exists and that it remains. Barrage and pre-tactic, there is.
Letta’s idea is to gamble with his coalition in the Center-South and try the coup with the majority prize, but, according to the current voting intentions, with the proposal of the Pd secretary (proportional with majority prize) to winning the prize would be the center-right coalition, which at the moment is given by the polls in the range between 44% and 48%. Salvini it does not fit for the simple fact that with the current law, the Rosatellumthe center-right would be full in the single-member colleges of the North and patchy in the Center-South.
This Read he is very clear about this, but his proposal has a logic and is of an exclusively political nature. Secretary Dem has serious difficulties in convincing his party to cede several single-member constituencies in the South a With you it’s at Di Maio. With the proportional and majority premium, however, the problem would be largely solved, for this reason Salvini he got in the way because he doesn’t want to be the one to remove the chestnuts from the fire a Read.
But in politics we need pragmatism. The Rosatellumas it is built, it guarantees in practice an absolute majority of seats in Parliament only in the event that a list or coalition of lists reaches no less than 40-42% of the votes on a national scale, provided however that what happened in 2018 does not occur, i.e. the coat of a single party (or coalition) in a specific area of the country, nullifying the difference in votes between one coalition (or party) and another.
On March 4, 2018 the M5Swhich at the national level had obtained about 5 percentage points less than the center-right (32.7% VS 37%), made a full house at South in all single-member colleges of six regions (Campania, Molise, Apulia, Basilicata, Calabria And Sicily), nullifying the victory of the center-right in the Center-North. The same situation could occur next year, with the center-right ahead in the Center-North and the center-left in the South, with the consequence that we find ourselves again Dragons at Palazzo Chigi, or if not just any Cottarelli.
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