Viminale: valid vote if you write ‘Giorgia’ on the ballot paper for the European elections

Write only the name ‘Georgie‘ on the ballot paper for the next European elections – like the prime minister Melons invited to do – does not invalidate the vote.

Sources from the Interior Ministry made this known. In the manual of instructions for polling station presidents produced by the Ministry of the Interior on the occasion of the consultations, the cases of valid voting are reported in which the preference for the candidate is assigned “using identifying expressions such as diminutives or nicknames, communicated previously to voters, as a way of expressing preference that can be used by any voter”.

The vote is valid – it continues – “as long as the actual will of the voter can be deduced”.

There is no rule that prohibits writing only the candidate’s first name on the ballot paper. But the move of Melons to become “only” Giorgia at the polling station he exposes himself to an unrelenting rejection by the jurists. And at the risk of disputes. As the constitutionalist of Sapienza points out Gaetano Azzariti: “Only Giorgia? And what do they do if there is another Giorgia? Will they be forced to eliminate it? Do you ban all Giorgia inside FdI? This is already discrimination and an infringement of a fundamental right…”. And also the emeritus professor of administrative law Franco Gaetano Scoca he defines it as “a very questionable choice which could give rise to disputes”.