And agreement was reached. On the new electoral law, the center-right found an agreement: yes to the preferences dear to Fdi and Noi Moderati, with the addition of gender alternation desired by the parliamentarians, primarily from Forza Italia. After yesterday’s lunch at Via della Scrofa with the sherpas, it was up to the leaders to meet: the last summit before the summer break between Giorgia Meloni, Antonio Tajani, Matteo Salvini, and Maurizio Lupi ratified the peace on the Stabilicum, took stock of the expiring measures, and set priorities for the resumption and navigation of the end of the legislature. One above all: to close ranks in view of the budget law.
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The mini-compromise on the electoral reform
The compromise reached yesterday on the electoral law – the technical meeting lasted about an hour and a half – essentially provides for the adoption of the Fdi-Nm amendment rejected on July 14 by a single vote in the secret ballot: following the Tuscan model, therefore, in the lists for the election of parliamentarians in the proportional part there will be a locked top candidate on the ballot and six other names written, with a maximum of three preferences that the voter can express with crosses (at least one out of three must be of a different gender).
The second name on the list of a different gender
The novelty is that gender alternation must also concern the top candidates in the sense that the second name on the list must be of a different gender, while the original version of the amendment imposed alternation only starting from the third candidate.
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The 60/40 rule only for the lists for the bonus
The 60/40 rule (60% as a cap for the overrepresented gender) is provided only in the other locked lists, the district ones presented for the majority bonus for the 70 seats in the Chamber and the 35 in the Senate to be assigned to the coalition that exceeds 42% of the votes the most. And the obligation introduced in the Chamber remains, for candidates in the lists linked to the bonus, to also be top candidates in the proportional lists.
Reexamined and discarded the runoff hypothesis
During the discussion, the hypothesis of a runoff was reexamined in case no one reaches 42% as a closing rule to avoid the risk of returning to the proportional system of the First Republic, a hypothesis supported by “reformist” experts not opposed to a system with a bonus such as Stefano Ceccanti, Francesco Clementi, and Roberto D’Alimonte. But it was, again, discarded. Complicated, according to the parliamentarians present – including for Fdi Giovanni Donzelli and Angelo Rossi, for Fi Roberto Rosso, Alessandro Battilocchio and Stefano Benigni, for the League Minister Roberto Calderoli and Andrea Paganella, and for Nm Alessandro Colucci – to introduce it without incurring “paradoxical outcomes” at risk of unconstitutionality.
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