La Corte conferma l’accesso “in via preferenziale” (nota a sent. n. 35 del 2017)

The essay focuses on procedural aspects of the decision by the Constitutional court 9 February 2017, no. 35, on the questions of constitutionality introduced by several Tribunals of first instance concerning the electoral law 6 may 2015, no. 52, also known as “Italicum”. The Court respected what already held in its historic ruling on the previous electoral law, pronounced just three years ago (13 January 2014, no. 1), where it assumed the power to judge electoral legislation despite the absence of an express provision of law. This second judgment consolidates a way of preferential access to constitutional justice that the Court expressly reserves to the safeguard of the constitutional right to vote.