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The result marked a victory for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her right-wing allies, who had encouraged their supporters to boycott the vote. Meloni herself entered a polling station in Rome but did not cast a ballot.
Italy’s referendum on citizenship and labour laws failed on Monday, due to low voter turnout. Italians headed to the polls over two days to vote on five proposals aimed at providing more job protections and easing access to citizenship for children born in Italy to foreigners.
The vote needed to reach a 50% plus one participation threshold to be legally validated, but official data on Monday evening showed that turnout hovered around only 30% of eligible voters.
The result marked a victory for Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her right-wing allies, who had encouraged their supporters to boycott the vote. Meloni herself entered a polling station in Rome but did not cast a ballot.
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The Prime Minister’s far-right Brothers of Italy party celebrated the referendum’s failure and claimed its only goal was to bring down the government. The result is a heavy blow for the centre-left opposition and for the coalition of labour unions and civil society groups that organised the referendum. A key referendum measure aimed to reduce the period of residence to apply for Italian citizenship by naturalisation from 10 to 5 years. If passed, the new rules would have affected about 2.5 million foreign nationals.
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