the ‘no’ prevails with 60% of the votes counted

Today is a bad day for Giorgia Meloni. According to the first results, the judicial reform promoted by the Government of the Italian Prime Minister, submitted to a referendum this Monday, has been rejected by more than half of the voters.

Specifically, the latest projection, which accounts for more than a third of the votes counted, indicates that around 54,77% of the population has voted ‘no’ to the reforms proposed by Meloni, above the ‘Yeah’which would be located in the 46,1%.

The exit polls already anticipated the rejection, although with a narrower margin, of the closing of the polls to the 15:00 local timeafter two days of voting, according to Efe.

This reform was for Meloni the great project of his legislature, after years maintaining that the judicial system is politicized and biased towards the left. Although the constitutional changes were approved by Parliament in October, they have needed to be ratified through popular consultation as they did not reach the required two-thirds of the votes.

In practical terms, the new law separates the careers of judges and prosecutorscurrently included in Italy under the name of “magistrates”who can move from one position to another in certain circumstances, something that is practically unheard of at European level.

On the other hand, it divides the Superior Council of the Judiciary, the self-governing body of the judiciary, into two and establishes drawing lots as the method of electing its members, in addition to creating a new disciplinary High Court for the judiciary, according to Efe.

Although many consider that the referendum was actually a test for the Italian coalition government, Meloni has disconnected his political future from the result of the vote and has assured that he will exhaust his term in 2027.

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