Overview
- The centre‑right formally deposited a new electoral text late in May that raises the majority‑bonus trigger from 40% to 42%, removes the runoff, and lowers the maximum bonus seat ceilings in both chambers.
- The draft requires lists to name a proposed prime minister or face inadmissibility and preserves large closed lists with no voter preferences, a feature critics say further concentrates control in party leaderships.
- The Chamber conference of group leaders has calendarized the bill for plenary debate on June 26, and the majority intends to fast‑track first‑stage approval by July and seek Senate completion during the summer recess.
- Opposition parties have denounced the deposit and tight timetable as a 'forzatura', demanded new expert hearings and fuller parliamentary scrutiny, and warned they will resist procedural shortcuts.
- Constitutional scholars have flagged two likely legal flashpoints—excluding Trentino‑Alto Adige and Val d'Aosta from bonus calculations and keeping blocked lists—which could trigger review by the Corte costituzionale and force changes.