the appeal is triggered –

The electoral office of the Court of Appeal of Rome, president Tommaso Picazio, has excluded Alternativa Popolare by Stefano Bandecchi and Luca Palamara from the 2024 European elections for the central constituency. AP, which did not collect the necessary signatures, had a reference to the EPP in its symbol, but the connection with a parliamentarian or MEP elected in Italy was missing. However, the list was admitted by the electoral office of the Court of Appeal of Naples. How is it possible? In short, people from Lazio, Tuscany, Umbria and the Marche will not be able to choose whether to vote for the AP, while southern Italians will be able to do so. AP has already appealed to the Supreme Court once morest the decision of the Court of Appeal of Rome. And the decisions of the Courts of Appeal of Milan, Venice and Palermo are still unknown. The first decision on the parties exempted from the obligation to collect signatures lies with the five Courts of Appeal (one for each constituency), where the parties have to present their lists by 8pm today. However, it is possible to appeal to the Supreme Court.

Anger and indignation leaks from the party of the mayor of Terni and Luca Palamara for what is seen as an institutional and regulatory short circuit. AP has presented similar documentation to the courts and this difference in judgment is considered unacceptable. According to what we learn, Alternativa Popolare has already appealed once morest the decision of the judges in Rome.

The president of AP, Paolo Alli, explains to the newspaper that “we don’t know what the opinions of the other three constituencies will be like, but it is clear that if we were crippled in some constituency we would have even more difficulty in reaching the 4% threshold” foreseen at the European elections. “We are convinced that we have the exemption from the collection of signatures because we believe that the latest changes introduced to the electoral law do not change the conditions for which we ourselves were admitted as a list in 2019 and the conditions for which in 2014 the Court of Cassation had admitted the Greens, recognizing them as belonging to the European family of a party represented by the European Parliament. And all this is also contained in the dossier that the Chamber and Senate Study Center published as a comment on the famous amended legislation”, states Alli , it does not end here.