(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 15 - The Constitutional Court on Tuesday started to evaluate the admissibility of petitions to hold eight referendums.
    Six of the possible referendums regard the justice system, while one is about legalising euthanasia and another is about decriminalizing cannabis growing.
    The justice measures include a referendum on abolishing the so-called Severino law that stops people definitively convicted of several serious crimes, including corruption, from being able to stand in European, national and regional elections for six years, and suspends local politicians after first-instance convictions for some felonies.
    This referendum was proposed by the League and Radicali parties.
    Ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi was ejected from the Senate in 2013 and was banned from running in elections for several years under the Severino law after being convicted in a tax-fraud case.
    Another referendum is about stopping prosecutors changing careers to become judges and vice-versa.
    There is also one that would make judges and magistrates responsible in civil courts for the mistakes they make, rather than the State.
    If the referendums are admitted by the Constitutional Court, they should take place in April or May. (ANSA).