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 of the Government of the Italian Prime Minister that was submitted to a referendum this Monday has been rejected by more than half of the voters.

Specifically, the latest projection on the scrutiny, which counts more than a third of the votes counted, around 54.77% of the population has voted ‘no’ to the reforms proposed by Meloni, above the ‘yes’, which would remain at 46.1%.

The exit polls already predicted rejection of the reform, but they did so with a tighter margin, at the close of the polls at 3:00 p.m. local time after two days of referendum, reports Efe.
This reform is the great project of the legislature for Meloni, who considers that the judicial system is politicized and tilted to the left. And although the constitutional changes were approved by Parliament last October, they needed to be endorsed in a popular consultation because they did not obtain two-thirds of the votes.

In short, the new law separates the careers of judges and prosecutors, currently included in Italy under the name of ‘magistrates’ and who can move from one position to another in certain circumstances, something practically unheard of at the 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.

Meloni has disconnected his political future from the result of the referendum and will exhaust his term in 2027.

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