Crónica italiana: en el filo de las decisiones políticas capitales. Elecciones generales y refereéndum constitucional

In the last months the italian cytizens had questioned with their votes in the general elections and in the referendum, two important initiatives of Berlusconi’s Government, the electoral reform and the proposal of the constitutional reform. The first had been confined in a law very criticized by wide sectors of italian constitucional doctrine because she designes an electoral system that lacks of reassonability between the aims she try to get and the measures to get them. The proportional electoral system, the legal barriers, the prize of majority, the omission of measurements to obtain the parity among men and women in the access of representative charges, they are all difficulty reconciliable contents of the law with the inforce Constitution. The coalition «Casa delle Libertá» has worked out damaged for losing the election under this electoral legislation and also for the rejection of citizens to his offer of constitucional reform. A reform that was not a federal reform but a centralized reform. A reform that tried to introduce a chancellor government, but it was only an intention, because she had also institutions as the censure motions that permited the dominant position of the political parties. 380 CARLOS ORTEGA SANTIAGO