Legge elettorale e premierato elettivo: tra prospettive di modifica e persistenti criticità

di Lorenzo De Carlo

SOMMARIO: 1. Introduzione - 2. L’evoluzione del testo del ddl di revisione costituzionale: il superamento dell’ipotesi di costituzionalizzazione del sistema elettorale. – 3. La giurisprudenza della Corte costituzionale in merito al sistema elettorale. – 3.1. La sentenza n. 1 del 2014. – 3.2. La sentenza n. 35 del 2017. – 4. Legge elettorale e premierato: quali modelli di riferimento? – 5. Quale legge elettorale per quale premierato? – 6. Conclusioni, in prospettiva de iure condendo.

The purpose of this essay is to analyse the consequences on the electoral law of the proposed constitutional reform aimed at introducing the so-called 'elective premiership’. In fact, the bill now being examined by the Senate includes the simultaneous election of the President of the Council of Ministers and the members of the Parliament, ensuring that the Head of Government has a suitable majority to support him. However, no reference is made to the electoral law for the election of both the President and the members of Parliament. It is therefore necessary to verify whether a system designed in this way can be properly adapted both to the rulings of the Constitutional Court (in particular 1/2014 and 35/2017), and more generally to the various types of electoral systems.