The Constitutional Court said
Wednesday that it had approved four referendums on issues
related to Italy's justice system.
It added that its evaluations were continuing on two other
petitions for referendums on justice-related questions and one
about decriminalizing cannabis growing.
The approved referendums include one 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.
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 approved referendum is about stopping prosecutors
changing careers to become judges and vice-versa.
The other two regard cases in which people can be detained on
remand and the election of the members of the judiciary's
self-governing body, the CSM.
The two referenda still being discussed regard the assessment of
prosecutors' performance and making magistrates pay for
miscarriages of justice.
On Tuesday the court said it had rejected a petition to stage a
referendum on legalising euthanasia.
The court said that, if the referendum were approved, "the
Constitutionally necessary minimum protection of human life
would not be preserved". It referred specifically to the
vulnerable.
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