In view of the political elections and in preparation for the vote, we believe it
appropriate to develop some reflections on the vote starting from the electorallaw. Approved on November 3, 2017, n. 165 and commonly known as Rosatellum, ittakes its name from the deputy Ettore Rosato, who we hope will not be re-elected.After a constitutional reform approved in this legislature and which reduced thenumber of parliamentarians, on 25 September 400 deputies and 200 senators will beelected, while previously the number of elected in the two chambers wasrespectively double. This reduction in seats would have required a modificationof the electoral law to correct the distortions in representation but theapproval of a new law did not take place, with the result that by applying it toa small number of eligible candidates, minorities without representatives will becrushed. .Elections to the HouseItaly is divided into 147 areas (called colleges) in which there may be anundefined number of candidates who will be indicated by name and surname and willbe associated with the parties that support them. Voters must choose thecandidate by placing a cross on the name they choose or on the symbol of one ofthe lists. In the tab there are alsoother names and are those of the candidates of the so-called "blocked list".Whoever gets even one vote more than the other candidates in the college iselected; this is the reason that forces the parties to join forces.What happens to the remaining 253? Eight of these are elected abroad: 245deputies remain to be elected.To decide who are elected, all the votes of all the parties throughout Italy areadded together, after which the percentage of votes achieved on the totality ofvoters is calculated for each one. applied to the total, it will give the numberof those elected with the proportional system.It remains to be established who are the elected members of the various partieson the proportional share: for this purpose the national territory is dividedinto larger areas than the single-member constituencies (the 147 previously used)which in many cases correspond to entire regions. For those with fewerinhabitants - from Calabria downwards - only two or more colleges are merged.Those elected are chosen by drawing on the so-called blocked list, in order andin scaling with respect to the percentage of votes achieved; there are nopreferences and the order in the list is decided by the party secretariats, thusassuming "safe colleges".The distribution of seats is difficult to describe, need for checks andcorrections, but in the end it must represent the distribution of the nationalvotes received by the parties. Furthermore, through the expedient of nominatingparty leaders in multiple constituencies, it is possible to strategically use thechoice of the constituency to choose who to be elected in the seat which isrenounced.Elections to the SenateIn the Senate the similar mechanism. 74 senators elected in single-memberconstituencies, 122 in multi-member constituencies and 4 abroad. Furthermore, thedistribution of seats in the Senate does not take place at the national level,because the Constitution provides that the Senate is elected on a regional basis.The law also provides for thresholds: to obtain seats, a party must have at least3% of the votes, or appear in a coalition of parties that together obtain 10%,with exceptions for strong parties in individual regions or for therepresentatives of linguistic minorities will otherwise have no elected. In anycase, parties that do not reach 1% do not access the division of seats.The remaining 8 deputies and 4 senators elected in the constituencies abroad aredivided into 4 constituencies in Europe, South America, North and CentralAmerica, Africa, Asia, Oceania and Antarctica.These constituencies behave like multi-member constituencies, therefore the votesare divided among the lists with the proportional system.A criminal electoral lawSome considerations arise from the summary reconstruction of the electoral lawIt deadens the role of minorities, fragments them on the territory, until theydisappearIt favors the appointment of candidates identified by the party secretariatsIt guarantees the perpetuation of the political class by co-optationThe law seems to have been made on purpose to discourage participation and fuelabstentionThe levels of democratic participation in the parliamentary system demonstratethe failure of liberal democracy and that only mobilization on jobs, on theterritory, in social struggles can give solutions to the needs of social justiceand the recovery of income shares at least necessary for a tenor of decent life.The active abstention of the anarchist communistsWe, as anarchist communists. we do not make abstention a flag. We do not sharethe institutions of liberal democracy and therefore neither parliamentarism nordelegation by election. We are in favor of direct action; when we delegate. weconsider the mandate subject to the continuous supervision of the delegatingparties and revocable, in any case temporary; we are in favor of direct democracyin the workplace and in local structures. However, considering the exercise ofvoting as an instrument of political tactics, we believe that, from time to time,the opportunities and conditions for a possible and tactical use of voting shouldbe evaluated.The conditions in which the political system forces us to go to the vote, with anelectoral law that, as we have been able to illustrate, in many situations makesthe exercise of the vote a mere "testimony", with no effect.Therefore, it will be necessary to assess the situation, college by college,reflecting on the reliability of the candidates and the need to stem the rightand all those forces that, by modifying the constitutional pact, are working tomake a political change in the country irreversible.Whatever the case may be, the progressive delegitimization of the liberalpolitical system proceeds and the citizens who vote have the perception thatwhatever the electoral outcome, the formation of governments and majorities isheterodirected through the composition-decomposition of parties and alliances,starting from the day after the vote. , hence the uselessness of participation.What is happening strengthens our conviction that only mobilization and strugglecan offer credible solutions but this means identifying shared and realobjectives. This is why the program we support is the fight for a decent wage,through contract renewals, the fight against precarious work, overcoming freeapprenticeships and a minimum wage guaranteed by the contract and protected bylaw. The guarantees for male and female workers abrogated with the infamousprovisions of the Job Act must be restored, we must commit ourselves to defendingthe territory and the eco-system, opposing the so-called fourth generationnuclear power that does not exist, in order to obtain energy at affordableprices. For an efficient health service, for the financing of public schools,keeping the production chains of the country intact by contrasting relocationthrough fiscal instruments and maintaining the progressive nature of taxation.The turn to the right that is intended to impose on the country cannot be avoidedwith electoral instruments, but only through social struggles that unite employedworkers, holders of their own poverty, migrant workers, undeclared and underpaidworkers in a single front.The Editorshttp://www.ucadi.org/2022/08/25/il-partito-dellastensione/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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