nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20260411-173427-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 260411s2026||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20260411-173427-0 doi eng 342 23 Lattanzi, Umberto Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-0448-5490 Neither What Italy Needed, Nor What it Deserved - The 2026 Constitutional Referendum and the Rejection of the Nordio Reform Lattanzi, Umberto Verfassungsblog 2026-04-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On 22 and 23 March 2026, the Italian electorate rejected a constitutional reform of the judiciary. This vote, while unlikely to deal a decisive blow to Meloni’s government, has already had notable political repercussions – most prominently, the resignations of two key figures within the Ministry of Justice. However, when situating the reform in the broader Italian political context, it goes too far to conclude that it would have pushed Italy in a direction similar to Hungary’s. CC BY-SA 4.0 Italien Italy Meloni Referendum Rule of Law (DE-588)4027833-5 gnd Italien Martinico, Giuseppe Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/nor-what-it-deserved/ raw object