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Autore
Starita, Massimo

Titolo
Convenzione europea dei diritti umani e problemi di costituzionalità della legge elettorale italiana
Periodico
Diritti umani e diritto internazionale
Anno: 2013 - Volume: 7 - Fascicolo: 3 - Pagina iniziale: 689 - Pagina finale: 704

By an order of 21 March 2013, the Court of Cassation referred to the Constitutional Court the ques-tion of constitutionality of the current Italian electoral law on the grounds that it runs counter to the constitutional principles of free and equal suffrage. The Constitutional Court has been called by the referring judge to focus on three main aspects of law: the closed list system; the majority bonus in the Chamber of Deputies, by which the coalition that wins the highest number of votes receives at least 55% of the seats; and the majority bonus in the Senate, which is assigned on a regional level. While the Court of Cassation affirmed that the constitutional principles on the right to vote have to be inter-preted in the light of Article 3 of Additional Protocol to the ECHR, it did not make any reference to the ECtHR case-law on political rights. This paper attempts to assess the impact that this jurispru-dence can have on the question of the constitutional legitimacy of the electoral law. It argues that, while this impact is negligible if the different aspects of the law are examined separately, a deeper con-sideration of the 'Strasbourg approach' to political rights can be significant if all these aspects are con-sidered as a whole. The author defends the position that the combined effects of those multiple as-pects on the composition of the Italian Parliament produce a problem of respect of the "will of the people", in breach of Article 3 of Additional Protocol to the ECHR.



SICI: 1971-7105(2013)7:3<689:CEDDUE>2.0.ZU;2-S
Testo completo: http://www.mulino.it/download/article/10.12829/75255
Testo completo alternativo: http://www.mulino.it/doi/10.12829/75255

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