nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/c1ada45370f9ce7b DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 231116s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/c1ada45370f9ce7b doi eng 342 23 Civitarese Matteucci, Stefano Author aut Paving the Way to Autocracy? - On the Meloni Government’s Attempt to Shift the Constitutional Architecture of Italy Civitarese Matteucci, Stefano Verfassungsblog 2023-11-16 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On November 3, 2023, the Italian Council of Ministers approved a Bill to amend the Constitution, encapsulating what Giorgia Meloni’s Cabinet advertises as a measure to enhance executive stability and streamline policy implementation for medium to long-term objectives. The real goal appears to be cementing the Prime Minister’s grip on power after general elections, as evidenced by the intention to enshrine the majority bonus in the Constitution. Yet, from a constitutional law perspective, the majority bonus raises a fundamental issue related to how the Italian Constitutional Court interprets the eternity clause in the Constitution. CC BY-SA 4.0 Constitutional Reform Parliamentarism Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/paving-the-way-to-autocracy/ raw object