Reform for Provinces: The Law for Direct Election
The walk to the ARS of the “Leggina” that is supposed to revive the former Provinces began this morning, less than 24 hours after the decision that the center-right made during the meeting at Palazzo d’Orleans on Tuesday.
In the Institutional Affairs Committee at the ARS, everything was stopped to give priority to the rules that will reintroduce direct voting in the former Provinces, where in mid-December there should have been a vote with second level elections as in the rest of Italy according to the Delrio law. The decree already signed by Renato Schifani had set the second level elections for December 15: to elect the presidents and assemblies of the Free Consortia, if the ballot boxes are not blocked by this now planned blitz at the ARS, only the mayors and municipal councilors of the area will be called to the polls. The same goes for the election of metropolitan councils, while at the top of the Metropolitan Cities, the mayors of the capital have a right to be represented.
However, the proposed bill changes everything. It contains seven articles. In addition to the reintroduction of universal suffrage, the text provides for “the representation of both genders within the board, in analogy with the provisions in force for the Municipalities.” There will be 25 councilors in consortia with a population of up to 400,000 inhabitants, and 30 in those with a larger population. In metropolitan cities, the council members will be 35 for those with less than a million inhabitants, and 40 for those with a larger population. The electoral system provided for in the text signed by all the center-right group leaders is the one used for the bodies of the regional Provinces, “never expressly repealed, also providing that in the composition of the lists for the election of the councils, each gender is represented by at least one third.”
It is expected that, in the first application, the election of presidents and councils will be held within the ordinary spring electoral round, between April and June. Furthermore, for the members of the governing bodies of the large area entities – that is, presidents, assessors, and councilors – the application of “the current legislation on the status of local administrators and the application, to the extent compatible, of the entire discipline on the election, functions, and attributions of the bodies of the former provincial Provinces” is foreseen. Therefore, presidents, assessors, and councilors are expected to earn more or less the same as their equals in the Municipalities.
Riforma per le Province: ecco la legge per l’elezione diretta
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