Referendum costituzionale e suo uso politico nella prassi

The popular referendum provided for by Article 138 of the Constitution is configured as an instrument to guarantee both constitutional rigidity and minorities, that can be called to oppose the initiative to amend the Constitution or to approve a constitutional law. In practice, however, on all four occasions in which the constitutional referendum has been held up to now, its use has deviated from the spirit of the constitutional provision. This has contributed to highlighting a more general problem: the debasement of the centrality of
Parliament.