Electoral law, appeals to the Constitutional Court announced after vote in the Chamber of Deputies

The Chamber of Deputies gave final approval to the new electoral law on 8 October 2026, with 227 votes in favour and 164 against. The system chosen is proportional, with a majority bonus reserved for the coalition that exceeds 42% of the vote. This is reported by Corriere della Sera, which places the application of the new law at the 2027 national elections.

The majority and the opposition have already given the text two different names, a sign of how divisive the reform remains: the term used by the majority differs from that used by the opposition, confirming an opposite political reading of the same measure.

La Repubblica reports that a group of jurists and public figures, gathered under the name “Costituzione e democrazia”, has announced appeals against the law and a press conference at the Chamber of Deputies. A public event is also planned in Florence on 20 October.

The two elements — the numerical vote in the Chamber and the announcement of the appeals — come from distinct and independent sources: Corriere della Sera for the outcome of the vote and the majority bonus mechanism, La Repubblica for the announced legal initiatives. This allows the matter to be reported with a margin of cross-verification that other news items of the day do not have.

The technical crux of the reform is the majority bonus linked to the 42% threshold: a system that, within a proportional framework, nonetheless introduces a majoritarian mechanism conditional on a coalition exceeding that percentage. It is precisely on this point — together with other aspects of the text not specified in the available sources — that, according to what has been announced, the appeals preannounced by the “Costituzione e democrazia” group would focus.

It is not yet clear, on the basis of what has been reported by the two newspapers, what the specific substance of the objections to be filed will be, nor whether the appeals will be directed straight to the Constitutional Court or will follow a different path. The Florence event on 20 October is, at present, the only public deadline announced for articulating these positions outside institutional venues.

In any case, the starting political fact remains fixed: a law approved with a majority of 227 votes against 164, intended — according to Corriere della Sera — to govern the 2027 national vote, and already accompanied, less than three days after approval, by the announcement of an organised judicial opposition front.