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
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2021
Verfassungsblog
2021-07-13
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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.
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Palermo, Francesco
Bicameralism
Italian Constitution
Voting Age
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