The committee for NO to the referendum on the separation of careers has filed an appeal with the TAR on the date of the referendum

Guglielmi, contacted by Fanpage.it, underlines how a well-established practice has been violated: the government has violated article 138 of the Constitution, which allows three months from publication in the Official Journal to collect the 500 thousand voter signatures needed to request a referendum. The majority, starting from the request made by a fifth of the members of a Chamber, instead considers the indication of the date legitimate, without waiting for the 90 days to expire on January 30th, because it recalls article 15 of law no. 352 of 25 May 1970, which establishes that the referendum must be called within 60 days of communication of the order of the Central Office for the Referendum of the Court of Cassation, which admitted the referendum requests last 18 November. Therefore, the reasoning goes, the government was required to communicate a date for the referendum consultation by January 17th

Nobody knows what could happen now, after the request for suspension to the TAR. This is an unprecedented fact, and there is no precedent: since the Amato government of 2001, governments have always waited three months after publication in the Official Journal. "What happens now? Nobody knows, because nothing like this has ever happened. On all the other four occasions in which there was both a collection of signatures and a question asked by parliamentarians – given that it is obvious that a question from parliamentarians takes 3 days and a collection of signatures takes 3 months – all the governments had waited for the 3 months to expire. Nobody ever said ‘I don’t care about the 3 months’ and so we don’t know what will happen"comments Guglielmi to Fanpage.it.