Mattarella dissolves the Chambers: we go to the elections. Voting takes place on 25 September

In the morning at House of Representatives Mario Draghi has announced his intention to climb the Colle and resign in the hands of the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, a week after the first stop of his executive and after a fiery Wednesday with the thrust of the government, despite the confidence of the facade, for the parade of Forza Italia, Lega and 5 Star Movement.

What can Mattarella do in the face of the government crisis

The President of the Republic can open consultations to verify whether there is a majority in the Houses for a new executive or dissolve Parliament, thus starting the country for elections

The climb to Colle di Draghi

Postponed the climb to the Hill already on the evening of Wednesday 20 July, after the confidence obtained in the Senate and the confirmation of the government crisis, Mario Draghi went on the morning of 21, immediately after his message to the Chamber, to the Quirinale. The presidency of the republic has an image of the conversation between Mattarella and Draghi was disseminated. Draghi has resigned and at the moment the government remains in office for the handling of current affairs, in fact, the commitment to guarantee administrative continuity (as required by the Constitution in order not to leave the country without a government), limiting itself to necessary or urgent acts.

The elections

The government has determined that it will go to vote on September 25, despite a Jewish holiday, not to go too far with the autumn vow. An unusual thing in Italy, where elections are avoided in the autumn because they fall too close to the discussion of the budget law.

What law will we vote on when we go to the elections

The Rosatellum, the new electoral law, provides for a mixed majority and proportional system. The composition of Parliament will change: the seats between the Senate and the Chamber will be 600, against the current 945

How to decide when to vote

The new executive will take office in late autumn, between late October and early November at best, ie in full budget session. Reason why the autumn elections have always been avoided, however avert the provisional exercisegiven that the government must present the budget law to the Chambers by 15 October.

The electoral law with which you vote

The electoral appointment, in addition to marking the end of the eighteenth legislature of the Italian Republic, will mark the end of Parliament as we know it. For the first time in republican history the seats for which the parties will compete they will be 600 and no longer 945leading to new parliamentary balances and new power relations, especially by virtue of the mixed majority and proportional system with which the representatives will be elected, by virtue of the new electoral law, called Rosatellumnamed after its supervisor Ettore Rosato (Italia Viva).

There constitutional law 1 of 2020 provided for a reduction of 36.5% of the members of both branches of Parliament: from 630 to 400 seats in the Chamber and from 315 to 200 in the Senate. It provides for a mixed electoral system, with one third of the seats between the Chamber and the Senate which will be elected in single-member constituenciestherefore through a majority system, and the remaining two thirds divided between the parties faithfully respecting the percentage results they obtained in the elections, therefore through a defined proportional system. In order to obtain seats, competing parties must obtain at least 3% of the votes on a national basis. While for coalitions of different parties the threshold is 10%. Those who do not reach this threshold will not be able to elect any representative. The multiple candidacies. They will be assigned to the Chamber 148 single-member colleges, through the majority system, in which each party or coalition will present only one candidate or candidate. The person elected will be the one who gets at least one more vote than the others in the college. A proportional method will be used for the allocation of the other 244 seats. Finally, in the foreign constituencies will be assigned an additional 8 seats. In the Senate, the seats will be distributed in much the same way. The single-member constituencies will be 74, the proportional constituencies 122, and the seats of those elected abroad 4. The only corrective that has come into effect is the one it has reduced the age for voting in the Senate from 25 to 18.