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January 16, 2020 The Constitutional Court defines the referendum on the electoral law as inadmissible and reactions and comments immediately spring up:

Salvini (League)
"It is a shame, it is the old system that defends itself. We are sorry that the people do not let themselves be decided: so is the return to prehistory of the worst Italian politics. The Democratic Party celebrates if the Italians cannot vote? What a sad end for a party that was born "democratic". It is yet another theft of Democracy against the Italian people, the old system defends itself with the Democratic Party and 5 stars attached to the armchairs and tries to go back thirty years with proportional laws that help the parties but damage the country. Lost opportunity, but we'll try again from tomorrow. "

Fiano (Pd)
"The Constitutional Court has spoken and declared inadmissible the referendum on the electoral law proposed by the League, and what Salvini does? Attacks the Court, screams shame, accuses Pd and 5S of being attacked on the armchairs. That is, a politician, delegated by his constituents to the legislative power, attacks a supreme and independent body of the State which has the duty to judge only on the basis of the Constitution. This is the League, always and in any case attack any independent power of a liberal democracy based on the balance of powers. when it came to choosing ministers, the President of the Republic attacked the judiciary when he asked to judge him, attacked the Bank of Italy, the independent authorities, now the Consulta, all that hinders the idea of ​​full powers. of liberal democracy. We will always defend this balance of powers and their independence which are the basis of our Republic, when emo agree and when we will not be with the sentences and the pronouncements. If anyone still has doubts about the kind of democracy Salvini would like to wake up from sleep ".

Di Maio (M5s)
"We are following the proportional path so that all Italian citizens are actually represented in Parliament."

Fontana (Lombardy Region)
"A real shame, I am saddened by the decision of the Supreme Court, the meaning of which can only be clarified by reading the reasons. Citizens have been able to freely express themselves and choose how to elect their representatives. In the past, politics has never been able to finding a law that guaranteed respect for democracy and governance, this could have been a good opportunity. "

Gasparri (FI)
"The Constitutional Court continues to churn out political decisions, the law gives way to the restoration of the left, a disturbing #referendum confirmation".

Turkish (Radical Party)
"The Constitutional Court has decided according to its own practice according to which the electoral referendums must be self-applying. We hope that over time the Court as it affirmed this principle will review it. It is really absurd that citizens cannot decide how to elect their representatives , or how many they must be. The necessity and urgency of a reform of the institutions in a uninominal and majority sense and of justice in a guaranteeist sense is increasingly affirmed. The proportionalist and justicialist decline to which the PD5S is condemning the country will pay dearly " .

Besostri (opponents of the question)
"Extreme satisfaction" is expressed by Professor Felice Besostri, representative before the Consultation of the opponents of the question, for the Court's 'no' to the referendum on the electoral law. This ruling, he stresses, "shows that the grounds for inadmissibility had been raised specifically in the interventions 'ad opposendum', as well as the criticisms of the conflict". Now "I hope this is teaching for the Regions to promote referendums in the interest of the Regions themselves and not to do a service to a political force. If they are truly convinced that the uninominal majority system is the best, they will adopt it for their renewal ".

Fornaro (Leu)
"By declaring the referendum promoted by the League through eight regional councils inadmissible, the Constitutional Court made the right choice. The UI was the only parliamentary group to set up against the referendum initiative and therefore we cannot hide our satisfaction with the In fact, an electoral system based on the British majority model would have had devastating effects on the constitutional building of our democracy. There is now more time to pass a new electoral law that pursues the objective of guaranteeing a correct constitutional balance between representation and the necessary stability of the institutions ".

Boato (Verdi)
"The Italian Greens express satisfaction with the Consulta's decision to reject the request for a referendum on the Electoral law presented by the Salvini League, a decision consistent with the jurisprudence of the Italian Constitutional Court. As Verdi we remain of the idea that the only possible way to give representation to all citizens and all citizens is an electoral system on a proportional basis, with barriers below 3%. For us it is necessary to expand the mechanisms of political representation and certainly not reduce it by instrumentally excluding those 'minor' political forces which in recent years have represented the emergence of new ecological, pro-European and social issues. The history of Italy teaches that the consensus is fluctuating, indicating that this is not a country with a majority vocation. Restoring legitimacy to the political system must be objective to be pursued and the Greens will fight with all the lawful means to reaffirm the princes i of broad and inclusive political pluralism ".

Mulé (FI)
"The rejection of the referendum by the Consulta obliges the center-right to stem in all ways the return to the past with the desire for 'restoration' of the models in vogue in the first republic where the only certainty at the time of the vote was not knowing who Pd and 5Stelle, masters and talented pupils in the matter of occupying armchairs, move forward compactly to achieve the most politically congenial model for their attitude: the inciucium, or a proportional system that is a sure guarantee of post-electoral consequences such as the painful one we are witnessing ".

D'Incà (minister of parliament relations)
"After the ruling of the Constitutional Court, we continue to move forward to overcome the Rosatellum and give the country a proportional electoral law with a high threshold that guarantees a more cohesive political system, more representative chambers and more stable governments."

Calderoli (League)
"Yesterday the newspaper La Repubblica wrote 'Cancellare Salvini' and today with the negative decision of the Consulta on the referendum on the electoral law we can write 'delete the people'. Because the unexpected decision of the Constitutional Court puts an end to the possibility that future abrogative referendums may be presented in electoral matters and therefore, in fact, it places electoral matters among those that cannot be submitted to referendum according to our Constitution, but it is a pity that this is not written in our Constitution ".

Gentiloni (Pd)
"The Constitutional Court rejects the referendum invented by Salvini. Good news also for those who don't like proportionality".