Looking at Berlin, Ending up on Capitol Hill - The Italian Constitutional Reform Plans in Comparative Perspective
De Petris, Andrea
Author
aut
Text
xx#
2023
Verfassungsblog
2023-11-13
eng
On 3 November 2023, the Italian Council of Ministers approved a constitutional reform bill to introduce the direct election of the Prime Minister in Italy. The reform would grant the Prime Minister significantly broader powers than those currently outlined in the Constitution. The proposal is now set to be evaluated by the Italian Parliament, and possibly submitted to a popular referendum if it is not approved by two-thirds of the members of both chambers. While it claims to ensure the continuity of governments – a known weak point of the Italian political system - it undermines the very foundation of parliamentary representation: the party system. Breathing the spirit of plebiscitary populism, this misguided reform, while seemingly looking towards Berlin for inspiration, risks in a worst-case scenario creating an atmosphere reminiscent of Capitol Hill on a fateful day a few years ago.
CC BY-SA 4.0
De Petris, Andrea
Comparative Constitutionalism
Constitutional Reforms
Meloni
Parliamentarism
342
https://verfassungsblog.de/looking-at-berlin-ending-up-on-capitol-hill/
Verfassungsblog
2366-7044
Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH
10.59704/4d67dc8c489d93fc
231113
10.59704/4d67dc8c489d93fc
Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl
(Revision 1.140 20200717)