There are eight referendum questions on which the Constitutional Court will have to express itself next Tuesday: six concern justice, one euthanasia, the last cannabis. If admitted, they could be put to a popular vote on a Sunday in spring.
JUSTICE – The six questions on justice were promoted by the Radicals, the League and nine center-right regional councils (Basilicata, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Liguria, Lombardy, Piedmont, Sardinia, Sicily, Umbria, Veneto). They concern: the election of councilors toga of the CSM, civil liability and assessments on the professionalism of judges, the separation of careers between judges and prosecutors, preventive detention and the Severino law. Between physical and electronic, the League has counted over 4.2 million signatures collected, crammed into 368 boxes that filled three vans, but also in six hard drives that contain digital signatures and electoral certificates. The request for a referendum by only five regional councils would have been enough, but the rationale of the promoters was ‘melius est abundare …’.
EUTHANASIA – Over one million and 200 thousand signatures were deposited in the Supreme Court last October by Marco Cappato of the Luca Coscioni association and by the other volunteers of the committee promoting the referendum that wants to introduce legal euthanasia. The partial repeal of article 579 of the penal code is requested, the murder of the consenting party, which punishes with imprisonment from six to fifteen years whoever procures the death of a person with his consent. In the event of a favorable outcome, active euthanasia would not be punishable if carried out in the forms provided for by the law on informed consent and living wills, and in the presence of the requirements introduced by the ruling of the Council on the Cappato case. Instead, prison would remain for those who have committed the offense against an incapable person or against a person whose consent has been extorted with violence, threats or against a minor of eighteen.
THE CANNABIS – Over 630,000 signatures have been collected in just over a month and filed in support of the cannabis question. According to the promoters, about half of the subscribers are young people aged 18 to 30. The mobilization was carried out in particular thanks to the digital signature tool, introduced with an amendment by the radical parliamentarian Riccardo Magi. Specifically, the question – filed by the Associations Luca Coscioni, Meglio Legale, Forum Droghe, Antigone, Società della Ragione and by some representatives of the parties + Europe, Possible and Italian Radicals – proposes “to intervene both on the level of criminal relevance, as far as it concerns the conduct related to cannabis, both on that of administrative sanctions in reference to detention “.
Objective: decriminalize its cultivation and personal use.
Source: Ansa
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