The constituencies into which Italy is divided and which will shape the new Parliament have been defined with a 2020 decree. Legislative decree number 177 of 23 December 2020 – “Determination of single-member and multi-member constituencies for the election of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate of the Republic” – was necessary to redesign the constituencies after the changes introduced with the constitutional law of 19 October 2020 which reduced the number of parliamentarians from 630 to 400 deputies and from 315 to 200 elected senators.
With the new standard single-member collegesthose that are assigned with the majority systemthere are 221 (147 in the House and 74 in the Senate) while those they are 367 in total of which 245 in the Chamber and 122 in the Senate. To these are added the 12 colleges reserved for deputies and senators elected abroad (8 for the chamber and 4 for the senate). 600 MPs in all. If you had voted in 2023, at the natural expiry of the legislature, the decree would have had to be modified: by the end of the year the last census of 2021 will be ‘stamped’ and this would have involved small interventions on the colleges to update them with the new data. of the population. Going to vote in 2022, however, the problem does not arise and the decree will be revised on the occasion of the following elections.
Also in the next political elections will be the draws to decide, as required by law, the progressive numbering of the symbols of the lists of candidates on the ballot paper.
The draw is unique for each constituency of the Chamber and for each region of the Senate. The offices of the Interior Ministry, in the presence of the specially summoned list delegates, carry out a first draw between the coalitions and the unrelated lists. The drawing of lots defines the order in which the single-member candidates and coalitions will be reported on the form and on the posters, as well as the single lists connected to them (with the relative list candidates alongside in all single-member constituencies in the region).
To establish, then, the order number of the lists within the coalitions, we proceed to draw all the lists in the coalition: these will be inserted for printing on the posters and ballot papers in the various single-member constituencies within the own coalition based on the order number reported by the draw: we start from the one with the lowest order number and finish with the one with the highest number. And so for each coalition and in all single-member constituencies of the same conscription for the Chamber and region for the Senate.
Source: Ansa
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