A referendum proposal to reform
Italy's citizenship law collected a record 155,000 signatures on
Monday, the justice ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
"In the day of yesterday alone, the digital platform created by
the justice ministry for the signatures for the referendum
gathered in total over 155,000 signatures on all questions of
the referendum currently included in the system", the statement
said Tuesday.
"It is a record number, in a day during which a temporary
interruption was recorded between the hours of 13 and 15 caused
by the extremely elevated number of accesses", according to the
statement.
A reported 300,000 signatures had been collected as of Monday
with 500,000 signatures necessary by the end of September to
request the referendum on citizenship reform.
The referendum launched by lawmaker Riccardo Magi from
progressive party +Europa proposes, among others, to change
current Italian citizenship legislation, which dates back to
1992, to cut down from 10 to five years the period of residence
necessary to apply to become an Italian citizen, provided the
applicant fulfils a number of criteria.
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