On Barbara Kornfeld
The exercise of the vote, before a duty is a fundamental right of the individual: The Italian Republic Day was reminded of it - coincidentally close to the next abrogative referendum - celebrated with great pomp from north to south. The television images disclosed Arisa who intoned the anthem of Mameli in front of the highest positions of the state, with the president Mattarella smiling and moved; Maestro Nuti who directed six thousand choristers in the exercise of the same song; The firefighters who dressed in the tricolor the Colosseum, scene replicated in every Italian city, also in Salerno, in front of the police station. Applause, popular consent, Yet it persists distrust and reluctance in the exercise of a right conquered with difficulty: Paola Cortellesi explained it very well in the film "There is still tomorrow", When with a surprise ending, Instead of "fleeing with the alleged American princely prince" he decides to exercise the right to vote, For the first time granted to women, Just the referendum that would have sanctioned the birth of the Italian Republic. And, Because our Republic was born from a referendum, from the decision of the people who expressed their will directly, what less and less the current electoral system allows you to exercise directly.
For this to exercise the direct will, expressing the vote in this referendum, has a historical value, symbolic and identity. It doesn't matter if you have a favorable or contrary opinion: The important thing is to go to vote and understand the contents.
A month ago I met Benedetto Di Gregorio, Head of appointments for the chairmanship of the electoral office of the Court of Appeal of the Court of Salerno, To learn more about the issues relating to his work.
Barbara Kornfeld: The question is trivial, Referendum dell'8 e 9 June, The insiders - in essence - what they do?
Benedetto Di Gregorio: "When the Ministry of the Interior publishes the calling of the referendum, or any elections, The Prefecture communicates to the President of the Court of Appeal the dates in which the votes will take place. The President of the Court of Appeal, of each Italian Court of Appeal, Consult the register of seating presidents - which collects names and data of the subjects suitable to carry out this job - therefore appoints them according to the sections of the municipalities in which the elections or referendums will have to be kept: In this case Salerno, has one hundred and fifty -eight municipalities to manage. The appointments made are made known to the individual municipalities that notify them with the interested parties within thirty days from the date of electoral events. The office of President of the seat is mandatory, except in specific cases foreseen - in which it is possible to exercise the right of renunciation, documenting the kind of renunciation - in all other cases, The function of president of the seat is an obligation. The appointment accepted, The Saturday preceding the date of the elections, The president of the seat is convened by the mayor of the Municipality at the seat in which he was appointed, To receive the electoral material: material delivered by one of its delegate. The package is presented in the form of a sack that contains the electoral cards, The minutes for consultations, The stationery material, copying pencils, The posters to be affected, and anything else concerns the activity of the seat. The president of the seat constitutes the seat at hours 16:00 - on the Saturday before the votes - using a secretary of his appointment, as a trustee, and by three tellers appointed by the mayor of the Municipality. Instiasso the seat begin preliminary operations, or verification of the material delivered, for comparison with what is listed in the minutes, stamping and endorsement of the cards: being cinque should be referred to, It will be necessary to end as many cards as there are voters who will vote in that section (that is to say that, For example, if there are four hundred voters in a section, The cards to be vidimed would be two thousand). The cards must be endorsed and stamped. After that, the compilation of the report is started which is structured in order to support the user in compilation because he has pre -filled parts: you just have to add the variable data, completing the form (where the section is located, section number, seat members, and the information useful for consultation). Finish these operations, The president of the seat is concerned with sealing the doors and windows of the polling station, Keeping the lights on to give the police forces to check that no one enters inside and postpones the activities in the aftermath. At seven in the day 8 June the referendum seat is settled: It is advisable to go a few minutes earlier to be operational for the vote at the scheduled time. The voters enter the section where they vote if equipped with an electoral card and valid document. The scrutineer takes note on the electoral list of the electoral card number, The electoral card number and the progressive number of the elector notes on a booklet, so as to be sure that that elector with that number of the list voted. Just identified, The voter receives the cards with the pencil and the indication of the cabin from the President in which to exercise the right to vote. The cards should be delivered preferably open to the elector, but not necessarily. The voter in the cabin votes and closes the cards, then it comes out and delivers the cards to the president who inserts them in the polls: At this moment the vote is perfected. The president returns to the voter the identity document and the electoral card, stamped with the date of the referendum. In this regard, the Municipality provides a special stamp with the date; so, On the card, both the stamp with the section number will be affixed, both the date: Obviously it can be eight or nine June, depending on the hypothesis of voting on Sunday or Monday. So, The voter can leave the seat. This is the process until hours 23:00 on Sunday 8 June 2025. At that moment, Casomai inside the seat were not present voters, The president declares the vote closed, closes the minutes, He seals the seat again in the methods of the day before and recommends to the police to supervise the seat before you can go home. The following day at seven the seat must be operational again, repeating the same procedure of the previous day. "
Barbara Kornfeld: What happens if all the voters of that section voted on June 8th?
Benedetto Di Gregorio: “Let's put this absurd hypothesis: If all voters should vote cannot be closed the seat until hours 15:00 Monday because in that section the police could vote, or people who find themselves there in particular casoma situations (or with the certificate of the mayor or people with particular pathologies, And therefore that section is destined to make those people vote too).”
Barbara Kornfeld: Therefore the president has more cards available than those resulting from the electoral lists of the Municipality. And the president and members of the seat, Desumo that does not vote in his usual seats, vero?
Benedetto Di Gregorio: “The president and all the members of the seat vote in the section in which they serve. It is clear that - returning to the example above - if we hypothesize four hundred voters, We must authenticate six more cards for a total of thirty further. And you have to write down at the bottom of the list, continuing with the progressive number, The name of the added voting voters ".
Barbara Kornfeld: You are responsible for the electoral office for the Salerno court, What a relationship have the presidents of the seat with her? And what responsibility does she take on their work?
Benedetto Di Gregorio: "We are talking about the Court of Appeal because the second degree office is of the Court of Appeal which deals with the appointment of the presidential presidents. I have been doing this job for about twenty years: I know most of the polling stations - more or less are always the usual - this year we have slightly changed the criterion because the referendum does not present particular difficulties and this has offered us the possibility of appointing young presidents, with little or no experience, so that they could start to make the bones, start practicing. I am always available for those who need advice, I made the first time the president of the seat at nineteen years of life, now I have sixty six, you show how many times I did it: It is a very delicate service, As we have contacts with the Prefecture - we interscase the news because they too are involved in this activity - between President of the Court and Prefect, as apical bodies of these offices ".
Barbara Kornfeld: The elector's visible recognition is possible?
Benedetto Di Gregorio: "And, provided that the elector has the card and is recognized by one of the members of the seat. The responsibility for the recognition will be assumed by the member of the seat that recognized the voter with a specific signature in the notes. So, It is possible to vote without identification document but not without a card, Casomai the subject is known to the members of the seat. This takes place a lot in small municipalities, in small countries, Like those of Cilento, where they know each other for nicknames ".
Barbara Kornfeld: Another theme, the readability of the signature. How important the readability of the signature is, as an identification of the person?
Benedetto Di Gregorio: “The signature is part of oneself, If one puts an abbreviation, it is clear that it would be incomprehensible - we also sometimes put out the documents instead of signing them, however, we set the stamp of the office - in all other cases a signature must have a minimum of readability. Another theme is the introduction of the card in the urn because often on television you can see the politicians who make the photo as they exercise the right to vote. However, it is not possible to do this in this way, Because the law says that the voter - expressed the vote - must deliver to the president the electoral tab that checks the cards - to understand if the cards that have been returned to him by the voter are the same that provided him and have not been vice versa., It's not that everything is done by chance. Many voters contest with have always done it, But the rule is different: Unfortunately there are also bad examples, Moreover, disclosed by the media ".
Another important theme is that in the electoral cabin you cannot bring smatphone and tablet: There are amusements for anyone who tried to take photos or film the referendum card. The president of the seat is required to notify the voters and to retain the devices, restituendoli, together with the documents, When they leave the electoral cabin.
As for the content of the referendum, the these are five. Whoever votes "yes" choose to repeal the contents, or existing laws. Those who vote for "no" intends not to cancel the existing laws in the way they are currently formulated. To validate the referendum it is necessary that they go to vote half plus one of the entitled people.
The voter has the right to have even less cards delivered than those provided, voting only for the questions of their interest. The quorum is calculated separately for "each referendum": that is to say that each card expresses the performance of a referendum, And it is legitimate for the law to decide to vote for all five referendum - choice recommended in my opinion - or decide to vote for less questions, making themselves delivered only the cards of interest. The act produces consequences: Those who do not withdraw a card do not contribute to being counted in the quorum of that question; Therefore, your vote is valid only for the questions on which your judgment is expressed. Those who instead withdraw the cards and leave them blank, they are counted for the purpose of the quorum, but they are not actually exercising their right to vote: This attitude in my opinion is also questionable, not so much for the civic sense, as much as it is useless to complain about the fate of the state if we do not exercise our popular will when we have the opportunity.
Specifically, the synthetic contents of the referendum are the following:
- Light green card = concerns the "Crescenti Tutele Contract"
If the legislative decree n.23 of the 2015, of the Renzi government, Posted in the Jobs Act and would return to the previous legislation - not to the article 18 of the workers' statute - but to the version that he had first modified in 2012 The Fornero reform. The ongoing legislative decree applies to companies with more than fifteen employees, For those who were hired after 7 March 2015: Its content has profoundly changed the protection against illegitimate layoffs, replacing the possibility of reinstatement of the worker with an economic compensation from a minimum of six months to a maximum of thirty -six months, Depending on the seniority of service. The reinstatement is provided only for cases of discriminatory dismissal and null dismissal. The victory of the opportunities would give the magistrates to expand the range of opportunities in which to reintegrate workers, it would limit the cases in which the worker would be exposed to the risk of dismissal for futile reasons or subject to abuse, He would protect him against discriminatory compensation for workers with low seniority of service and would encourage the complaint by workers without fear of retaliation by employers. In favor of the no, those who think that the flexibility of workers leaving the companies can encourage entrepreneurs to assume more easily with permanent contracts, putting an end to worn -out relations with economic incentives that would align Italy to European standards.
- Orange card = concerns "layoffs in small businesses", or those with less than fifteen employees, equal to almost four million Italian workers. The legislation provides for compensation for six salary months as extreme range with exceptions that bring some workers - exceptionally - to perceive fourteen monthly monthly. The reinstatement is not foreseen independently of the abuse immediately. In case of the victory of the: The magistrate could decide how many months to make the employee perceived by way of compensation on the basis of age, Health conditions, family ones, the seniority of service, the company dimensions. Those who are in favor of the no, argue that repealing this law could discourage the birth of micro -enterprises and disadvantage existing ones, already in an extremely critical situation.
- Gray card = concerns the "fixed -term contracts" that regulates fixed -term contracts that concerns almost two and a half million Italians.
The legislation currently provides that fixed -term contracts were entered into until twelve months, without the need to specify the reason, or the reason why the temporary contract was entered into. Casomai wins the one would restore the obligation to indicate the reason that motivates the temporary character of the employment relationship, also for contracts lower than twelve months, This would lead to a reduction in precariousness, Because period contracts are often used by interface to cover permanent situations (This kind of contract should be the exception, not the rule, Just think of the third -tier ATA employees who never accumulate seniority of service suitable for pension purposes). The supporters of the no counteracts that the causals are often the subject of legal dispute, who would encourage irregular work.
- Red card = concern "responsibility in contracts", and is inherent in the workplace safety in the contract sector: The chronicles estimate a thousand deaths the year in the face of five hundred thousand injuries.
The current law establishes that the client is responsible with the contractor for the damages suffered by the workers not covered by INAIL: This liability does not apply to the specific risks of the activities of the contracting companies or sub-contractors. This quibble is the subject of abrogative referendum. Those who are in favor of it is supposed that the clients would select contracting companies that would guarantee higher safety standards, In addition to guaranteeing adequate compensation for employees in the event of an accident. In favor of the no, Those who believe that the client should not interfere in the contractor's activities and that costs could increase properly to ensure high safety standards.
- Yellow card = concern "citizenship", or the requirements for obtaining Italian citizenship. The law governing this matter remained unchanged from 1865 al 1992, When the temporal raising five to ten years of the period of legal residence in Italy was decided, In order to request citizenship by a non -EU citizen, This without prejudice to the other requirements: absence of impedimental reasons for national security and criminal records, adequate income, fulfillment of tax obligations, knowledge of the Italian language.
If the yes win, Five years would be enough to submit an application for Italian citizenship, Fact that involves two and a half million people who complain that often the bureaucracy raises their path to twelve years of waiting, Their supporters claim that they contribute to the Italian company, and five years would be enough to evaluate its conduct; Italy would align Italy to the standards of some European countries. In favor of the no there are those who believe that reducing the terms for the request for citizenship can cause a large influx of non -EU people in Italy, In addition, many community countries have the standard set over ten years, While other foreign - United States primarily - require ten to twenty years to allow Italians to request citizenship.
