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2016 Italian constitutional referendum

2016 Italian constitutional referendum
4 December 2016
Do you approve the text of the Constitutional Law concerning 'Provisions for overcoming equal bicameralism, reducing the number of Members of Parliament, limiting the operating costs of the institutions, the suppression of the CNEL and the revision of Title V of Part II of the Constitution' approved by Parliament and published in the Official Gazette no. 88 of 15 April 2016?
Results
Choice
 Votes %
Yes 13,431,087 40.88%
No 19,421,025 59.12%
Valid votes 32,852,112 98.82%
Invalid or blank votes 392,146 1.18%
Total votes 33,244,258 100.00%
Registered voters/turnout 50,773,284 65.48%

Result by province

A constitutional referendum was held in Italy on 4 December 2016.[1] Voters were asked whether they approved a constitutional law that amends the Italian Constitution to reform the composition and powers of the Parliament of Italy,[2] as well as the division of powers between the State, the regions, and administrative entities.

The bill, put forward by the then Prime Minister of Italy, Matteo Renzi, and his centre-left Democratic Party, was first introduced by the government in the Senate on 8 April 2014. After several amendments were made to the proposed law by both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, the bill received its first approval on 13 October 2015 (Senate) and 11 January 2016 (Chamber), and, eventually, its second and final approval on 20 January 2016 (Senate) and 12 April 2016 (Chamber).[3]

In accordance with Article 138 of the Constitution, a referendum was called after the formal request of more than one fifth of the members of both the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies,[4] since the constitutional law had not been approved by a qualified majority of two-thirds in each house of parliament in the second vote.[5] 59.11% of voters voted against the constitutional reform, meaning it did not come into effect.[6] This was the third constitutional referendum in the history of the Italian Republic; the other two were in 2001 (in which the amending law was approved) and in 2006 (in which it was rejected).

Had the voters approved the constitutional law, it would have achieved the most extensive constitutional reform in Italy since the end of the monarchy, not only influencing the organization of the Parliament, but also improving, according to its proponents, on the poor government stability of the country. Opposition parties and well-known jurists (such as Gustavo Zagrebelsky[7] and Stefano Rodotà[8]) harshly criticised the bill, claiming that it was poorly written and would have made the government too powerful.[9][10]

Following the clear victory of the "No" vote, Renzi tendered his resignation as prime minister.[11] Paolo Gentiloni was selected as his replacement on 11 December.[12]

Constitutional background

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Palazzo Madama, the meeting place of the Italian Senate.

The Italian Parliament is described as a perfectly symmetric bicameral legislature, in that it has a lower house (the Chamber of Deputies) and an upper house (the Senate of the Republic) with the following characteristics:

Political background

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The first concrete attempts at reforming the Senate took place in the 1980s, when the first bicameral committee for constitutional reform headed by Aldo Bozzi was created (1983).[13] A second bicameral committee (headed by Ciriaco De Mita, later replaced by Nilde Iotti) operated in 1992–1994,[14] followed in 1997 by the third committee headed by the leader of the Left Democrats, Massimo D'Alema.[15] These attempts were unsuccessful.

A reform bill proposed by Silvio Berlusconi's government was finally approved by the parliament in 2005.[16] This proposal, which would also have considerably strengthened the powers of the prime minister, at the same time weakening the role of the President,[17] was ultimately rejected in the 2006 referendum.

In 2011, with the financial crisis ensuing and Berlusconi forced to resign from the position of prime minister,[18] the Parliament reprised discussions on constitutional reforms at the urging of president Giorgio Napolitano.[19] However, strong disagreements between the two main parties (the People of Freedom and the Democratic Party) prevented the Parliament from deciding on a reform.

Matteo Renzi in 2015.

After the 2013 general election, constitutional reform remained a prominent political topic. However, the first real breakthrough occurred when Matteo Renzi, the new Secretary of the Democratic Party, was appointed prime minister in February 2014. As part of his government's program, Renzi pledged to implement a number of reforms, including the abolition of the perfectly symmetric bicameralism, with a substantial decrease in the membership and power of the Senate. As well as effectively abolishing the current Senate, the package also included a new electoral law, aimed at giving the party that won the most votes in elections for the Chamber of Deputies a great many additional seats, allowing the formation of a stronger government.

After the proposals passed both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate twice, as required by Article 138 of the Italian constitution, Renzi scheduled a referendum to secure the Italian people's endorsement for October and also indicated that he would resign if his reforms were rejected.[20] Some opposition parties, predominantly Five Star Movement, Lega Nord and Italian Left, and also some newspapers like Il Fatto Quotidiano and Il manifesto, accused Renzi of turning the referendum into a plebiscite on his premiership with those comments.[21] However, after some months, Renzi said that his government will continue until the end of the legislature.

On 15 January 2016, La Repubblica reported that Renzi had hired American political adviser Jim Messina – who had worked with Barack Obama[22] and David Cameron[22] and would later work for Mariano Rajoy[23] – to oversee the campaign for "Yes".[24]

Details of the proposed change

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Role and powers of the Senate

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The Senate represents territorial institutions. It shares the legislative power with the Chamber of Deputies, but the vote of the Senate is only required to enact laws regarding specific matters. For all other laws, the vote of the Senate is optional and can be overruled by a second vote of the Chamber of Deputies.[25]

Senators enjoy the same immunities as the deputies, but receive no remuneration.[26]

The Government does not need to have the confidence of the new Senate, and the Senate cannot pass a motion of no confidence against the Government.[27]

Composition of the Senate

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The Senate is not subject to dissolution; instead, when a Regional Council ends its five years term, so do the senators elected by it; new senators will be elected after the Regional Council is renewed.[28]

Apportionment of seats among regions

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Region Seats Region Seats Region Seats
Abruzzo 2 Friuli-Venezia Giulia 2 Sardinia 3
Aosta Valley 2 Lazio 8 Sicily 7
Apulia 6 Liguria 2 South Tyrol[a] 2
Basilicata 2 Lombardy 14 Trentino[a] 2
Calabria 3 Marche 2 Tuscany 5
Campania 9 Molise 2 Umbria 2
Emilia-Romagna 6 Piedmont 7 Veneto 7

[31][32]

a Autonomous province, part of the region of Trentino-South Tyrol.

Legislative procedure

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The reform differentiates between two main legislative procedures: a unicameral procedure (in which the role of the Senate is mostly consultative) and a bicameral procedure (in which a bill must be approved by both Chambers).[33][34]

Under the unicameral procedure (which is used every time the Constitution does not require a special procedure), bills can be adopted by a vote of the Chamber of Deputies. At that point, the approved bill is sent to the Senate, which has 10 days to decide whether to examine it to propose changes, or let it be enacted without modification. If one-third of the senators ask to review the bill, the Senate has 30 days to formulate amendments and send the bill back to the Chamber of Deputies. Then the deputies will take the final decision on the Senate's proposals and on the bill as a whole. No further approval of the Senate is needed, but a qualified majority might be required to overcome the Senate's veto for laws adopted under the supremacy clause.

The bicameral procedure works in a similar way to the current legislative procedure, in that bills must be approved in the same text by both houses to be enacted, and will be forwarded from one house to the other until approved by both. This procedure is required for bills regarding the following.

Opponents to the referendum argue that the legislative procedures under the reformed Constitution would be much more than two, because of the several articles that introduce exceptions.[35][36]

State and regional competence

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The reform draws a different partition of matters reserved to the State and to the regions. The so-called "concurrent competence", according to which State law legislates the principles that are later to be implemented by regional laws, is abolished. All concurrent matters are reassigned to either the State's or the regions' competence.[37]

The Government can propose legislation to the Parliament on matters that are not reserved to the State, when this is required to protect the juridical or economic unity of Italy, or to protect national interests.[37] Such laws are adopted according to the unicameral legislative procedure: however, when modifications are proposed by an absolute majority of the members of the Senate, the Chamber of Deputies can override the proposals only by voting against them with an absolute majority of its members.[33]

CNEL and provinces

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The National Council for Economics and Labour[38] (CNEL), which is a consultative assembly of experts of the economic, social, and legal fields, representatives of public and private-sector producers of goods and services, and representatives of social service and voluntary organisations, is abolished.[39]

Provinces (the second-level administrative divisions of Italy) are removed from the Constitution, except for the autonomous provinces of Bolzano and Trento.[40] This opens the door for ordinary laws to abolish or radically reform them. In 2014–15 fourteen provinces were already replaced by "metropolitan cities" (that still exist in the reformed Constitution).

Other changes

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Reactions and criticism

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Books about the 2016 constitutional referendum.

Prime Minister Renzi was accused by some law scholars and politicians, such as Stefano Rodotà and Fausto Bertinotti, of being authoritarian and anti-democratic for proposing this reform.[47][48][49][50][51] Others, like Gianfranco Pasquino, argue that the adopted text is badly written.[52][53]

In April 2016, a paper called "Appello dei costituzionalisti" ("A Plea from Constitutional Scholars") was written by 56 law scholars (mainly constitutional law scholars), showing criticism of the proposed reform and their numerous concerns: among them are Francesco Amirante, Paolo Caretti, Lorenza Carlassare, Ugo De Siervo, Giovanni Maria Flick, Paolo Maddalena, Valerio Onida, Alfonso Quaranta and Gustavo Zagrebelsky.[54] The main points of criticism the paper raises are the following:

Later, in May 2016, other 184 law scholars and professors of various disciplines (among whom Franco Bassanini, Massimo Bordignon, Stefano Ceccanti, Francesco Clementi, Carlo Fusaro, Claudia Mancina, Stefano Mannoni, Angelo Panebianco, Pasquale Pasquino, Francesco Pizzetti, Michele Salvati, Tiziano Treu) signed, instead, an appeal in favour of the constitutional reform.[55]

Campaign positions

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Main article: Endorsements in the 2016 Italian constitutional referendum

Committees

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Choice Logo Campaign Slogan Website
checkY Yes Just a Yes Basta un Sì www.bastaunsi.it
☒N No Committee for No Comitato per il No www.comitatoperilno.it
I Vote No Io Voto No www.iovotono.it

Main political parties

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Choice Parties Political orientation Leader Ref
checkY Yes Democratic Party (PD) Social democracy Matteo Renzi [56]
New Centre-Right (NCD) Conservatism Angelino Alfano [57]
Liberal Popular Alliance (ALA) Centrism Denis Verdini [58]
Civic Choice (SC) Liberalism Enrico Zanetti [59][60]
☒N No Five Star Movement (M5S) Populism Beppe Grillo [61]
Forza Italia (FI) Liberal conservatism Silvio Berlusconi [62]
Italian Left (SI) Democratic socialism Nicola Fratoianni [63]
Lega Nord (LN) Right-wing populism Matteo Salvini [64]
Brothers of Italy (FdI) National conservatism Giorgia Meloni [65]
Conservatives and Reformists (CR) Conservatism Raffaele Fitto [66]

European political parties

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Choice Parties Political orientation Leader Ref
checkY Yes Party of European Socialists (PES) Social democracy Sergei Stanishev [67]
☒N No Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM 25) Alter-Europeanism Yanis Varoufakis [68]

Trade unions and business organisations

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Choice Organisations Political and cultural orientation Secretaries
checkY Yes General Confederation of Italian Industry (Confindustria)[69] Employers and businesses' organisation Vincenzo Boccia
Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions (CISL) Centrism Anna Maria Furlan
☒N No Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL)[70] Democratic socialism Susanna Camusso
☒N No General Labour Union (UGL)[71] National syndicalism Francesco Paolo Capone
Neutral/Undeclared Italian Labour Union (UIL)[72] Social democracy Carmelo Barbagallo

Newspapers

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Choice Newspapers Political and cultural orientation
checkY Yes L'Unità[73] Social democracy[74]
Il Sole 24 Ore Business newspaper
Il Foglio[75] Liberal conservatism
☒N No Il Fatto Quotidiano[76] Anti-establishment, Populism
Il Giornale[77] Conservatism[78]
Libero[79] Liberal conservatism
Il manifesto[80] Communism
Neutral/Undeclared La Repubblica Social liberalism
Corriere della Sera Centrism
La Stampa Centrism

Periodicals

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Choice Periodicals Political and cultural orientation
checkY Yes La Civiltà Cattolica[81][82] Periodical published by the Society of Jesus
Mondoperaio[83] Monthly journal, official organ of the Italian Socialist Party

Other organisations

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Choice Organisations Political and cultural orientation Leaders
checkY Yes Christian Associations of Italian Workers (ACLI)[84] Catholic social teaching, Christian left Roberto Rossini
☒N No National Association of the Italian Partisans (ANPI)[85] Anti-fascism Carlo Smuraglia
Neutral Libera[86] Anti-mafia Luigi Ciotti

TV debates

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Date Channel Programme Moderator Participants Audience Notes
checkY YES ☒N NO Audience Share
16 September La7 Sì o No Enrico Mentana Roberto Giachetti Massimo D'Alema 792,000 3.4% [87][88]
23 September Gian Luca Galletti,
Dario Nardella		 Renato Brunetta,
Giuseppe Civati		 574,000 2.7% [89]
30 September Matteo Renzi Gustavo Zagrebelsky 1,747,000 8.0% [90][91]
14 October Luciano Violante Tomaso Montanari 626,000 3.8% [92]
23 September Otto e Mezzo Lilli Gruber Matteo Renzi Marco Travaglio 2,280,000 9.4% [93]
7 October Maria Elena Boschi Matteo Salvini 2,000,000 8.4% [94]
28 October Sì o No Enrico Mentana Matteo Renzi Ciriaco De Mita 825,000 10.8%
4 November Stefano Ceccanti
Anna Ascani 		Elisabetta Piccolotti
Anna Falcone 		603,000 3.5%

Opinion polls

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Main article: Opinion polling for the 2016 Italian constitutional referendum

Results

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Ballot used in the referendum

"Almost 19,500,000 voters rejected the reform (59.11%), while nearly 13,500,000 voters approved it (40.88%). The turnout (65.47%) was by far the highest compared to Italy's other constitutional referendums: in 2001, the voter turnout was extremely low (34.10%); in 2006 it was higher, but barely exceeded half of the total number of eligible voters (52.46%)".[95]

Choice Votes %
checkY Yes 13,432,208 40.89
☒N No 19,419,507 59.11
Invalid/blank votes 392,130 –
Total 33,243,845 100
Registered voters/turnout 50,773,284 65.47
Ministry of the Interior Archived 4 December 2016 at archive.today
Popular vote
☒N No
 
 59.11%
checkY Yes
 
 40.89%

By region

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Sardinia and South Tyrol, both constituent entities of the Italian Republic with special conditions of autonomy, reported overall the highest percentage[96] of No[97][98] and Yes[99] votes respectively.

Region checkY Yes ☒N No Electorate Turnout
Votes % Votes %
Abruzzo 255,022 35.6 461,167 64.4 1,052,049 68.7
Aosta Valley 30,568 43.2 40,116 56.8 99,735 71.9
Apulia 659,354 32.8 1,348,573 67.2 3,280,745 61.7
Basilicata 98,924 34.1 191,081 65.9 467,000 62.9
Calabria 276,384 33.0 561,557 67.0 1,553,741 54.4
Campania 839,692 31.5 1,827,768 68.5 4,566,905 58.9
Emilia-Romagna 1,262,484 50.4 1,242,992 49.6 3,326,910 75.9
Friuli-Venezia Giulia 267,379 39.0 417,732 61.0 952,493 72.5
Lazio 1,108,768 36.7 1,914,397 63.3 4,402,145 69.2
Liguria 342,671 39.9 515,777 60.1 1,241,618 69.7
Lombardy 2,453,095 44.5 3,058,051 55.5 7,480,375 74.2
Marche 385,877 45.0 472,656 55.0 1,189,180 72.8
Molise 63,695 39.2 98,728 60.8 256,600 63.9
Piedmont 1,055,043 43.5 1,368,507 56.5 3,396,378 72.0
Sardinia 237,280 27.8 616,791 72.2 1,375,845 62.5
Sicily 642,980 28.4 1,619,828 71.6 4,031,871 56.7
Trentino-South Tyrol 305,473 53.9 261,473 46.1 792,503 72.2
Tuscany 1,105,769 52.5 1,000,008 47.5 2,854,162 74.4
Umbria 240,346 48.8 251,908 51.2 675,610 73.5
Veneto 1,078,883 38.1 1,756,144 61.9 3,725,399 76.7
Italy 12,709,515 40.0 19,025,275 60.0 46,720,943 68.5

Italians abroad

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Constituency checkY Yes ☒N No Invalid/blank Electorate Turnout
Votes % Votes % Votes %
  Europe 415,068 62.4 249,876 37.6 65,031 8.9 2,166,037 33.7
  South America 207,144 71.9 80,831 28.1 40,275 12.2 1,291,065 25.4
  North and Central Americas 62,816 62.2 38,113 37.8 15,979 13.6 374,987 31.2
  Africa, Asia, Oceania, Antarctica 37,644 59.7 25,433 40.3 7,201 10.2 220,252 31.9
  World 722,672 64.7 394,253 35.3 122,486 10.3 4,052,341 30.7
Votes of Italians abroad by country[100]

Reactions

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Renzi resigns after the referendum result.

After the first exit polls, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi stated in a midnight press conference that he would resign the next day.[101][102] In his speech, Renzi assumed full responsibility for the referendum defeat.[101]

The President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella asked Matteo Renzi to briefly postpone his resignation, to complete the parliamentary approval of the next year's budget law. After the budget was passed on 7 December, Renzi resigned that night.[103]

Financial markets were not particularly affected by the defeat of the constitutional reform: the Milan stock exchange closed the Monday session relatively stable (−0.2% on respect of previous Friday closing, before the vote),[104] while on Tuesday 6 December the stock index jumped at +4.15% (best result since 11 March 2016).[105]

To assure Italy stability, on 11 December 2016 President Sergio Mattarella gave Paolo Gentiloni the task of constituting a new government.[106]

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