L’Adige di Verona Proportional or greater? The example of Verona is illuminating
The debate on the electoral law. In Italy it is not included in the Constitution and it can be changed with a normal law. This is a substance of the fundamental charter of the Republic because it leaves the modalities of reading the Parliament in the hands of contingent majorities. Which is not fair, as allows you to write the rules of the game to the teams on the field.
Those immersed in everyday problems can find it difficult to understand the mechanisms of the electoral law. Debating whether the majority is better or whether it might seem like a useless exercise, detached from reality. Discussing whether it is better to adopt single-member colleges or to have preferences expressed may seem like the stuff of insiders. Yet it is right to understand something, since it is with the elections that we choose who goes to represent us in Parliament to make the laws that affect our lives.
It can then be enlightening the example of Verona.
Last year the by-elections in the college where was elected late Senator Bertacco from Brothers of Italy (west of the province). According to the electoral law, the “Rosatellum”, which provides for single-member constituencies, each of the admitted lists presented their symbol and candidate. In force on majority, center-right and center-left presented a single candidate for each coalition. The center-right had agreed that the candidate would go to Fdi. A safe college, where you could nominate anyone and he would be elected. And who nominated Meloni? A guy from Belluno. A certain Luca De Carlo who in 2018 was accidentally elected to the House. So much so that after the recount of the votes he had to leave the seat. Logic and common sense he wanted the candidate to be a local, a Veronese. And instead Meloni has chosen a stranger, which has nothing to do with Verona. So to represent a third of the citizens of our province was elected one who is completely detached from the Veronese social and political fabric. We will ask ourselves: come on, was there no Veronese who could be nominated? Of course there was. But this is not of interest to the party leaders. Other logics follow that have nothing to do with the territory. This is the majority system.