La riduzione del numero dei parlamentari, fra merito e legittimità costituzionale

The paper examines the proposed constitutional law on the reduction of the number of parliamentarians, which should bring the number of deputies from 630 to 400 and the number of elected senators from 315 to 200. The analysis is carried out both from the point of view of constitutional legitimacy, to ascertain that this is in line with the fundamental principles of our form of state, and from the point of view of the constitutional opportunity, to verify whether the objectives declared by the constitutional legislator (better functioning of the Chambers, greater institutional stability and cost savings) can actually be achieved with this reform or if, on the other hand, the way forward should have been different and perhaps inspired by the strengthening of the representativeness principle.