Time to move to Canada!

We have our dank memes too :D

Is that polenta on his head?

Yeah

It should be, he's already trying to not do so

they where sold out I guess :(

Renzi made the huge mistake of binding the outcome of the referendum with his own job as prime minister.

He stated that he would have resigned if "no" won... And most Italians do not like him, and thus "no" won.

I am not sure this was for the best. I never particularly liked him as a politician (not even when he was just a mayor trying to climb the ladder of his party) and I know several people the do not like him, BUT this result kinda promotes stagnation, and we needed some change.

I honestly don't know which option was best.
A victory of the "yes" would have had some negative aspects as well, like the fact that the proposed change wasn't exactly the best they could have come up with...

"No", because we don't want a dictatorship, which is what would have happened if "Yes" won.
The Senate as we know it would have been abolished, and turned into a representative of people elected from the regions.. basically leeching without having any kind of decisional power.

The executive power would have been completely in the hands of the Chamber of Deputies, where, with the current electoral law, a party or coalition just needs the relative majority of the votes to have 55% of the seats.

Example:

• results: party A - 36% votes, party B - 35.5%, party C - 28.5%
• assigned seats: party A - 347 of the 630 seats, party B - 157, party C - 126

These numbers are made up, but quite similar to the latest national elections... which is the reason why we have a technical government right now, because a single coalition couldn't hold the senate and create a stable government by themselves.

The idea behind this proposed change was to avoid situations like that, but imagine what would happen if a single party/coalition could make laws by themselves, with virtually nobody able to stop them... on top of being able to seemlessly modify our constitution, which is almost impossible right now, but would have been made easier that way.

Of course, the easier constitution modification was skillfully hidden behind the supposed "reduction of parliament members", but luckily, smart people who studied the entire text before voting outnumbered the sheeple who vote what they're said to do.
No wonder "Yes" got a lot of votes from uninformed Italians abroad, who, according to rumors, received flyers with instructions on how to vote (how to vote Yes, of course).

unless he change his mind before tomorrow, yes

i'm not so sure about elections. i would bet more on a renzi 2.0, be him or someone else (grasso? alfano?), or another unelected "technician government". in case of election we would probably have another "big coalition government". we are screw either way.

Ha ragione, il diritto di voto andrebbe guadagnato, per evitare che gente come lui faccia danni votando quello che gli viene "consigliato".
Comunque, ti consiglierei di trasformare l'immagine in un allegato, ho anche fatto una veloce traduzione, se vuoi aggiungerla al tuo post:

![(he's disgusted) I always said it and I won't stop thinking it. Universal voting right is wrong. It should be gained by merit, not by birth. Fuck you and your fucking democracy.](http://i.imgur.com/kBmnpax.jpg)

Not any more, Berlusconi was eventually moved out of office.

We wish we did, things would have been better, or at least less worse, than now.
Actually, the '46 referendum was heavily rigged towards republic, monarchy should have won by a large margin.

I guess ultimately it's a matter of personal taste, but yeah he wasn't bad at being a comedian.

Nope.

He's embarrassing

not anymore

yeah but he's funnier as politician

Nah, even the rightist parties of Europe find Trump too regressive. The comparison fails.

no ti prego ahahah

Posta, posta! I memes non sono mai abbastanza!

Italy will hold a referendum on Sunday on whether or not to change the country’s constitution.

What is this referendum about? Matteo Renzi, who came to power two years ago aged just 39, wants to streamline Italy’s political system so he can push through a major economic reform package. He wants to reduce the number of senators and limit the senate’s power relative to the lower house of parliament. ... So what happens if Mr Renzi resigns? The government falls. But the real question is what happens after that. salsa

We could summarize it as "Do you want to kill the last semblance of democracy?".
Just to say, banks wanted for "Yes" to win, and now they're starting to worry because the government won't be able to save their assets more efficiently.