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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20210713-140052-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/two-almost-identical-chambers-doing-the-same-job-twice/ Two Almost Identical Chambers Doing the Same Job Twice - On the lowering of the voting age and the lack of a constitutional strategy in Italy Palermo, Francesco eng 2021-07-13 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Bicameralism Italian Constitution Voting Age Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 On July 8th, the Italian Parliament adopted in the last reading an amendment to the constitution which lowers the voting age in Senate elections from 25 to 18 years. At first glance, an ode to democracy: the amendment eventually grants the right to vote for the upper chamber of the national Parliament to some 4 million young citizens. In reality, the amendment is the (so far) last step of a fragmented and schizophrenic set of reforms that are gradually dismantling the logic of the constitution of 1948 without proposing an alternative constitutional strategy.