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.
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