Justice referenda fail to reach quorum

(ANSA) - ROME, JUN 13 - A set of five referenda put to the Italian people on justice issues failed to reach quorum on Sunday, with just 20.8% of voters casting ballots.
    That was well sort of the 50% plus one voter needed.
    The five referendums included 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, like the others, was proposed by the League and Radical 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 was about stopping prosecutors changing careers to become judges and vice-versa.
    Another two regarded 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 fifth referendum was on lawyers voting to assess the performance of magistrates. (ANSA).