Italy 's prime minister, Giorgia Melonim says reforming the constitution is 'the most important legacy I can leave'. Photograph: Tiziana Fabi/AFP via Getty ImagesInside the museum that holds the Ara Pacis, a marble altar celebrating the peace and prosperity brought by the 40-year reign of Ancient Rome’s first emperor, Augustus, a group of prominent Italian business people were recently reflecting on the current state of the country.
Now, in what is likely to be one of the biggest battles of her political career, Meloni has unveiled plans for a contentious constitutional overhaul that she calls “the mother of all reforms”, one she claims will deliver political stability. To pull it off, she will need the support of influential citizens such as the supporters of Io Cambio to overcome what is likely to be fierce resistance to her plans.
“We want to take advantage of the stability of this government to give Italians a reform that will allow them to choose who is going to govern them and allow the ones chosen by Italians to have five years to realise their programme,” Meloni said at the end of last year in a social media video explaining her proposal.
“The reforms are not touching the constitutional articles concerning the powers of the president of the republic, but they are emptying it from inside,” argues former constitutional court president Marta Cartabia, who served as justice minister in Draghi’s government. “We will diminish a figure that has been one of the successful institutions and proved to be very useful in stabilising the country.
“For me, the important thing is to be able to bring home this reform that in my heart I consider the most important legacy I can leave to Italy,” Meloni said in a TV interview last week. “This is not a reform about me, this is already a stable government, this is a reform about what happens next.”Italy’s constitution was written shortly after the end of the second World War and the onset of the Cold War – with the US monitoring closely.
“In this country, we have already seen the model of one chief in command, with no limit from the parliament or the constitution, and it has not gone well,” says Schlein, referring to Mussolini. “I don’t see any reason to go in this direction. Democracy is not voting every five years for a chief with no controls.”
“The central concept – that the government should reflect the will of the people – is simple and popular,” says Lorenzo Pregliasco, founder of YouTrend, a Turin-based political polling agency. “If the referendum campaign was framed around this, it would have good chances of winning.”
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