Centre‑Right Files Amendment to Allow Out‑of‑Town Voting

Overview

• The governing majority formally filed a single‑article amendment on Friday that would let citizens 'fuori sede'—students, workers and patients—vote in national, European and referendum contests where they are temporarily domiciled.
• The text, signed by Fabio Roscani, Luca Toccalini, Simone Leoni and Maria Chiara Fazio, sets specific rules including annual registration by December 31 and a nine‑month minimum temporary domicile in the host municipality.
• Practical steps in the draft require out‑of‑town electors to join a municipal list, receive an admission attestation five days before voting, and be assigned to ordinary sections capped at 10% of a section's voters.
• Technical and political questions remain: the Interior Ministry raised implementation reservations and intra‑coalition tensions persist over how the preferences (preferenze) voting system will be handled during the wider electoral reform.
• Campaign groups that pressed for this change welcomed the move as progress for nearly five million Italians living away from their registered residence but stressed approval is not final because the Chamber begins formal debate on July 14 and the measure must survive legislative scrutiny.