Italicum: what price are Italians ready to pay to achieve governability and democracy?
Italy adopted last week its new electoral law, Italicum, which will enter into force in July 2016. It was one of the many reforms announced by centre-left Prime Minister Matteo Renzi when he was appointed in February 2014. The aim of this new electoral law is to provide more governability and democracy. It might partially achieve the former, but nowhere near the latter.
While the nuances of Italicum are beyond the scope of this article, the essence of the law is that it assigns a majority block of seats in Parliament to whichever list[1] gets more than 40% of the national votes[2].… Seguir leyendo »