A campaign seeking to make it easier for non-EU nationals living in Italy to apply for citizenship by residency was signed by 500,000 people in late September, enough to qualify for a public referendum.
Legal experts interviewed noted that Italy's Constitutional Court has previously approved referendums that didn’t seek to repeal but rather change a certain law, and it could do so again.
Italy's lower house vice-president Giorgio Mule suggested the referendum may be rejected as it doesn’t seek to repeal a law article but rather amend it.
The proposed reform aims to reduce the minimum residency requirement needed to apply for naturalisation from 10 to 5 years, impacting 2.5 million people.
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