D.next Sunday, June 12, back to the polls. We vote in about a thousand municipalities for the administrative elections and choose the new mayor and, throughout Italy, for the five abrogative referendums on justice.
Referendum and municipal: where to vote
Starting from the administrative ones, among the thousand municipalities where you will vote there are four regional capitals Genoa, Palermo, Catanzaro and L’Aquila. And 22 provincial capitals: Alessandria, Asti, Barletta, Belluno, Como, Cuneo, Frosinone, Gorizia, La Spezia, Lodi, Lucca, Messina, Monza, Oristano, Padua, Parma, Piacenza, Pistoia, Rieti, Taranto, Verona and Viterbo.
In Trentino Alto Adige the vote was held on Sunday 29 May, in Valle d’Aosta on 15 May.
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When you vote
The polls will be open only on Sunday from 7 to 23. In the event of a ballot, the new vote will be held on Sunday 26 June.
The counting of the ballots it will start immediately after the polls close e it will start from those of the referendums. Then, it will continue until Monday morning with those for administrative elections.
Municipal up to 15 thousand inhabitants
As for the municipalities, voting is different depending on whether they are municipalities with up to 15,000 inhabitants or more. In the first case, it will be possible to vote directly on the name of the candidate for mayorvote the linked list to the candidate for mayor o mark both cards.
The mayor who gets the most votes wins, in the event of a tie, the ballot takes placevote to be held on Sunday 26 June between the two candidates who obtained the highest number of preferences.
In municipalities with more than 15,000 inhabitants you can, in addition to the same options, also express a separate vote, or by marking the name of the candidate for statutory auditor and one of the lists not connected to him. The vote is thus attributed both to the candidate for statutory auditor and to the unrelated list.
In this case, the mayor who obtains the absolute majority of valid votes (at least 50% plus one)is elected mayor in the first round. If this threshold is not reached, voting will be resumed on Sunday 26 June for the ballot between the two most voted candidates.
The five referendums on justice
Throughout Italy, however, voters will be able to express their opinion on the five abrogative referendums on justiceor to eliminate laws or parts of laws.
The There will be five ballots on which to vote, like the questions. The first “Repeal of the Consolidated Law of the provisions on the subject of non-compliance and the prohibition of holding elected and governmental offices resulting from definitive sentences of conviction for non-culpable crimes” will have the red card.
The according to «Limitation of precautionary measures: repeal of the last sentence of art. 274, paragraph 1, letter c), code of criminal procedure, in the matter of precautionary measures and, in particular, precautionary needs, in the criminal trial “will have the orange card.
Yellow card for the referendum number 3 «Separation of the functions of the magistrates. Abrogation of the rules on the judicial system that allow the transition from judicial functions to prosecutors and vice versa in the career of magistrates “.
The referendum number 4, «Participation of lay members in all the deliberations of the Governing Council of the Court of Cassation and of the judicial councils. Abrogation of rules on the composition of the Governing Council of the Court of Cassation and of the judicial councils and of the competences of lay members who are part of it ” will have the gray card.
Last question, the number 5“Abrogation of rules on elections of professional members of the High Council of the Judiciary” will have a green card.
Referendum and municipal: you can change the card
If by chance the voter he realizes he has got his vote wrongyou can easily ask the president of the seat of replace the card itselfbeing able to cast their vote again.
In this case, the seat president will give him a new ballot, inserting the replaced one among the deteriorated cards.
The documents to vote
Voters must present themselves at the polling station with a valid identity document and electoral card. In the absence of a suitable document, as confirmed by the ministry, the voter can be recognized also «by one of the members of the polling station who personally knows the elector and certifies his identity or by another elector of the municipalityknown at the polling station and provided with an identity document “.
Referendum and municipal: electoral card expired
There electoral card is renewed at the electoral office of the municipality of residence. It would be advisable not to notice it on the day of the vote in order not to concentrate the influx in the electoral office.
Which, in any case, will remain however open from 9 to 18 in the two days prior to the date consultation and, on the day of the vote, therefore Sunday 12 June, from 7 to 23.
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