2025 Italian referendum
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Ballot colors for the five questions of the referendum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Voting system | Popular referendum | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Outcome | Quorum of 50% + 1 voters not reached making the referendum void | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Repeal of limitations on reinstatement following unlawful dismissal | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Repeal of constraints on judicial discretion in employment termination cases | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Repeal of liberalized use of fixed-term agency employment | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Repeal of joint liability provisions for workplace accidents in subcontracting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Repeal of extended requirements for acquiring Italian citizenship | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The 2025 Italian referendum, officially the 2025 Abrogative Referendums in Italy (Italian: Referendum abrogativi in Italia del 2025), were held on 8 and 9 June, concurrently with the second round of the local elections. The objective of the referendums was the repeal of four labor laws, two of which were originally introduced as part of the Jobs Act in 2016, and an amendment to the law on the acquisition of Italian citizenship by foreign residents.
The referendum question on the request for Italian citizenship was initially promoted by the secretary of More Europe Riccardo Magi as well as by the parties Possibile, Italian Socialist Party, Italian Radicals and Communist Refoundation Party and numerous civil society associations, with a collection of signatures, also carried out digitally, which collected more than 637,000 signatures.
The referendum questions on work, instead, were promoted by the Italian General Confederation of Labour with a public collection of signatures, which gathered over four million signatures.
All five questions were declared admissible by the Constitutional Court during the council chamber of 20 January 2025, in which instead the proposal for a referendum to repeal the Calderoli law on differentiated autonomy was rejected, declared inadmissible. For the result to be valid, at least 50% + 1 eligible voters quorum had to be reached with at least 50% of participants approving. But, none of the referendums reached the required turnout, and the results were consequently rendered void.