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In its current form, the project to change the form of government that the Italian government headed by Ms Giorgia Meloni is preparing to present to the Senate seems difficult to accept. The project claims to address the issue of unstable and short-term cabinets in Italy (65 in 75 years, one every 12 months from 1948 through 1994 when a new electoral law was applied; still one every 21 months thereafter). Unfortunately, it is both poorly drafted and contains contradictions that make it not only impracticable but of dubious functionality with respect to the very objectives it proposes to achieve. However, as it has been decades since the problem the draft says it wants to tackle has been acknowledged, I shall assume its proponents' good intentions and suugest how the text could be improved. Below I briefly describe the project, trace its distant and recent origins, indicate what it is lacking and how it should be changed. CC BY-SA 4.0 Fusaro, Carlo Constitutional Reform Democratic Legitimacy Italy Legitimation Parliamentarism Presidentialism 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/between-recalibration-and-distortion/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/1307ddbf2cccdf13 231115 10.59704/1307ddbf2cccdf13 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)