US EditionLow turnout set to thwart moves to ease Italian citizenship rules
- Italy held a referendum on June 8 and 9, 2025, to reduce the citizenship residency requirement from ten to five years, but it failed due to low turnout.
- The referendum failure followed a campaign by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her allies to boycott the vote and keep participation below the 50% threshold needed.
- The measure aimed to benefit roughly 2.5 million lawfully resident non-EU immigrants by shortening the wait time in Italy, which remains unusually long in the EU.
- Lorenzo Pregliasco of YouTrend commented that turnout hovering around the 30 percent mark is considered quite low and falls short of what the organizers had anticipated and aimed to achieve.
- The referendum's failure strengthens Meloni's government, weakens the opposition, and means millions must wait longer under current citizenship rules.
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Italian Voters and No-Shows Send Referendum to Ease Citizenship Rules to Crushing Defeat
Italians headed to the polls on Sunday for a referendum favored by the Italian Left that would have eased citizenship requirements and revised labor laws. However, low voter turnout sent the referendum down to defeat as not enough voters turned out to make the vote valid. Official data from YouTrend revealed only 30% of eligible voters cast their ballots, which was well below the 50% plus one needed for the five referendum questions to pass. Pol…
Rome, 9 June is not only a steady turnout at just 30% to mark the collapse of the left postache with traction Landini-Schlein. It is the humiliation suffered right on the ground that should have been more favorable: citizenship to immigrants. The referendum on citizenship is a flop in the flop of the few who went to the ballot box, more than a third voted NO. A sound, unexpected blow, which perhaps represents the greatest electoral debacle of re…
The left and the main union (CGIL) that promoted five referendums suffer a defeat, while the Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, and their government allies, achieve a victory with their strategy of abstention. The influx to the polls only reached 30.6%, far from the quorum of 50% provided for by the Constitution. As a result, the referendums are null and void. It was voted to repeal four labour regulations, in particular on layoffs, precarious cont…
The central left of Italy has crashed in its attempt to make itself stagger, or in its best dreams even to bring down the government of Giorgia Meloni, with a great mobilization at the polls, a powerful sign that it no longer has the support of the street. The weapon of the Democratic Party (PD) of Elly Schlein and the 5 Star Movement (M5S) of Giuseppe Conte was a referendum held on Sunday and Monday, with closure of schools at three in the afte…
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