Coronavirus, the CDM ok to the postponement of the regional and administrative elections

The regional and municipal elections, scheduled for spring 2020, cannot take place before September. The Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the President Giuseppe Conte and the Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese, approved a decree-law that introduces urgent provisions on electoral consultations for the year 2020, in consideration of the health emergency from Covid- 19. As regards the by-elections for the Senate and the Chamber, the deadline for holding the elections for the seats declared vacant by 31 July is set at 240 days, compared to the 90 provided for by current legislation. Regarding the elections for the renewal of municipal and district councils, limited to the year 2020,the ordinary annual shift will be held on a Sunday between 15 September and 15 December. The same deadline is also provided for municipalities and districts whose bodies must be renewed for reasons other than the expiry of the mandate, if the conditions that make the elections necessary have occurred by July 27, 2020. Finally, it is established that the bodies regional electives with ordinary statute, whose renewal is expected by 2 August 2020, remain in office for five years and three months and that the elections take place in the sixty days following that term or on the Sunday included in the additional six days. The text provides that electoral consultations can be postponed for no more than three months, even if already called, in consideration of specific epidemiological situations from Covid-19.There are seven Regions called to the polls and which, due to the Covid19 emergency, will therefore have to postpone the electoral appointment: these are Veneto, Liguria, Campania, Tuscany, Marche, Puglia and Valle D'Aosta. There are also over a thousand municipalities affected. Mattarella signs the decree The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, signed the decree law on elections approved by today's Council of Ministers this evening. This is what we learn from sources of the Quirinale. D'Incà: election day hypothesis in autumn "Today in the Council of Ministers we decided to postpone the regional elections to allow for democratic participation. Let's hypothesize an election day between September and October to save time and resources". This was stated by the Minister for Relations with Parliament, Federico D 'Incà, on RadioUno assuming an election day that includes regional, municipal and referendum on the cut of parliamentarians. From four Regions: widen the voting window in July. Enlarge the voting window for the next regional ones in July. This is what the governors of Campania, Puglia, Liguria and Veneto, Vincenzo De Luca, Michele Emiliano, Giovanni Toti and Luca Zaia had asked for in a joint note. "In the Council of Ministers, according to what is known, a provision was approved - reads the note - a provision that provides for the postponement of the vote between September and November and cancels the July window, on which many of the Regions that will go to the vote ". "Sorry - underline the four governors - that the government has approved a different decree without any further confrontation. Obviously we will wait to read the text to express a complete judgment that goes beyond the method "." We reiterate - continues the note - the need to guarantee voters the inalienable right to express themselves as quickly as possible, compatibly with the progress of the epidemic . Therefore, considering, as far as we can predict today, that summer is the safest season from an epidemiological point of view, we further reiterate the need to widen the voting window, as requested by us, to the month of July "." In any case - conclude De Luca, Emiliano,Toti and Zaia - it is the common intention of our Regions to summon citizens to vote on the earliest possible date allowed by the government's provision ".

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20 April 2020 The regional and municipal elections, scheduled for spring 2020, cannot take place before September.

The Council of Ministers, on the proposal of the President Giuseppe Conte and the Minister of the Interior Luciana Lamorgese, approved a decree-law that introduces urgent provisions on electoral consultations for the year 2020, in consideration of the health emergency from Covid- 19. With regard to the supplementary elections for the Senate and the Chamber, the deadline for holding the elections for the seats declared vacant by 31 July is set at 240 days, compared to the 90 provided for by current legislation.

With regard to the elections for the renewal of municipal and district councils, limited to the year 2020, the ordinary annual round will be held on a Sunday between September 15 and December 15. The same deadline is also provided for municipalities and districts whose bodies must be renewed for reasons other than the expiry of the mandate, if the conditions that make the elections necessary have occurred by July 27, 2020. Finally, it is established that the bodies regional electives with ordinary statute, whose renewal is expected by 2 August 2020, remain in office for five years and three months and that the elections take place in the sixty days following that term or on the Sunday included in the additional six days. The text provides that electoral consultations can be postponed for no more than three months,even if already announced, in consideration of specific epidemiological situations from Covid-19.

There are seven Regions called to the polls and which, due to the Covid19 emergency, will therefore have to postpone the electoral appointment: these are Veneto, Liguria, Campania, Tuscany, Marche, Puglia and Valle D'Aosta. There are also over a thousand municipalities affected.

Mattarella signs the decree

The President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, signed the decree law on elections approved by today's Council of Ministers this evening. This is what we learn from sources of the Quirinale.

D'Incà: election day hypothesis in autumn

"Today in the Council of Ministers we decided to postpone the regional elections to allow democratic participation. We hypothesize an eventual election day between September and October to save time and resources". The Minister for Relations with Parliament, Federico D'Incà, said this on RadioUno, assuming an election day that includes regional, municipal and referendum on the cut of parliamentarians.

From four Regions: widen the voting window in July.

Enlarge the voting window for the next regional ones in July. This is what the governors of Campania, Puglia, Liguria and Veneto, Vincenzo De Luca, Michele Emiliano, Giovanni Toti and Luca Zaia had asked for in a joint note.

"In the Council of Ministers, according to what is known, a provision was approved - reads the note - a provision that provides for the postponement of the vote between September and November and cancels the July window, on which many of the Regions that will go to the vote ".

"Sorry - underline the four governors - that the government has approved a different decree without any further comparison. Obviously we will wait to read the text to express a complete judgment that goes beyond the method".

"We reiterate - continues the note - the need to guarantee voters the inalienable right to express themselves as quickly as possible, compatibly with the trend of the epidemic. Therefore, considering, as far as it is possible to predict today, that summer is the safer season from an epidemiological point of view, we further reiterate the need to widen the

voting window, as requested by us, to the month of July ".

"In any case - conclude De Luca, Emiliano, Toti and Zaia - it is the common intention of our Regions to summon citizens to vote on the earliest possible date allowed by the government provision".

Coronavirus, the CDM ok to the postponement of the regional and administrative elections

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