Extremely low turn to citizens in Italychosen to express their will for five referendums related to labor rights and the provision of nationality to foreign citizens, according to data so far, did not exceed 30%.
Consequently, Referendums are invalidbecause the relevant law in Italy stipulates that in order to be considered valid for each referendum, it must vote at least 50%+1 of the right.
In a post on social media, the Italian Prime Minister’s party, Georgia Meloni, stressed: “The only real objective of this referendum was to drop the government. In the end, however Italians expressed in favor of the fall of the oppositionยป.
It is recalled that the parties of the conservative government alliance that ruled the country had been in favor of abstention, while the biggest opposition forces (Democratic Party, Five Stars and Italian Left with Ecologists) supported the “yes” to referendums.
Italian Foreign Minister and Party Heads of Forza Italia, Antonio Tayyani, at the same time said that the government majority will take the initiative to increase the number of signatures necessary to request a referendum.
To date (09.06.2025), The relevant number is 500,000 signatures.
By the Italian radicals and the “More Europe” party who supported The referendum on granting citizenshipit is emphasized that “The organized abstention was won, which was favored by the lack of adequate information and a spontaneous form of abstention”.
In terms of The four referendums to enhance labor rightsthe citizens who came to the polls voted “yes” in percentage ranging from 85% up to 88%.
For the referendum who demanded the reduction of time required, from ten to five years so be able to grant Italian citizenship to foreign citizens living permanently in the country, voted in favor of 62% of citizens who came to the polls.