The Italian referendum on the rules of citizenship that was foiled by low turnout Politics News

Prime Minister Meloni said that she would not vote, accuse the opposition of the government of caring for immigrants and workers ’issues.

Italian referendum on Reducing the rules of nationality The promotion of work protection has failed after the hard right -wing Prime Minister Georgia Meloni encouraged voters to boycott the vote.

When the polls closed on Monday, it appeared that many citizens surrendered Meloni because only 30 percent of the voters are voting. Two days of votingMuch less than 50 percent in addition to one needed to make the result legally binding.

The result was a clear defeat for the left opposition in the center, which was proposed to half the period of residence required to apply for Italian citizenship from 10 to five years and reflected the liberal market in the labor market submitted a decade ago.

The Prime Minister said she was “against” citizenship proposals, declaring that she will be attended in the polls, but she does not vote.

The declared goal of Meloni’s government is to reduce irregular immigration, but it has increased the number of migrant work visas.

The Secretary -General of the General Confederation of the Labor Union, Maurizio Landini, criticized the decrease in the participation rate as a sign of a “clear democratic crisis” in Italy.

“We knew that it would not be a picnic in the garden,” he said, stressing that millions of Italians had appeared to fight for change.

Melonian brothers in the Italy party posted on social media that “the only real goal” of the referendum is to overthrow the Meloni government, and he added, along with pictures of opposition leaders: “In the end, the Italians were the ones who brought you up.”

Opinion polls published in mid -May showed that 46 percent of the Italians were familiar with the referendums.

Activists and opposition parties accused the ruling coalition of alleviating the deliberate interest in sensitive issues that directly affect migrants and workers.

Activists for the change in the Citizenship Law said that it will help the children of non -European parents to better integrate into a culture they already see as their confidence.

The changes in the laws affected about 2.5 million foreign citizens.

Other questions in the referendum dealt with workers’ issues such as better protection than dismissal, high separation payments and converting fixed contracts into permanent articles.

The opposition forces had hoped that the promotion of these reasons would help them attract the working class voters and the challenge of Meloni, which they have struggled to do since they reached power in 2022.

Several 78 referendums that have been held in Italy have failed in the past due to the low turnout.