“Here we are! We’re finally starting: from today you can sign online on the public and free platform, also from the address referendumcittadinanza.it, the referendum that will allow us to begin changing the law on citizenship”. The secretary of +Europa announced it on social media channels, Richard Magi. “All those who in recent weeks, in recent months, in recent years have said they are in favor of a reform of the citizenship law – Magi emphasizes – can do something concrete by signing and having others sign: we ask that the period of legal residence that foreign citizens must have as a requirement for the granting of citizenship be halved to five years”.
This concerns a very large pool of people who live in Italy and who “are already rooted in our country and who are regular, work, have children who go to school. It concerns – continues the secretary of +Europa – potentially over two million people, plus their children, that is, many girls and boys. Citizens who have lived in Italy for years and who, like all of us, make a contribution to our country but who an unjust law still keeps out of citizenship”.
“Italians after 5 years with residency and income”. The challenge of the referendum
by Giovanna Casadio
The referendum was presented by the associations Italians without citizenship, CoNNGI, Idem Network, Libera, Gruppo Abele, Società della Ragione, A Buon Diritto, ARCI, ActionAid, Oxfam, Cittadinanza Attiva, InOltre Alternativa progressista, by the parties +Europa, Possibile, Partito Socialista, Radicali Italiani, Rifondazione Comunista and by personalities such as Don Luigi Ciotti, Emma Bonino, Mauro, Riccardo Magi, Luigi Manconi, Ivan Novelli, Enzo Maraio, Benedetto Della Vedova, Antonella Soldo, Pippo Civati, Sonny Olumati, Simohamed Kaabour, Daniela Ionita, Francesca Druetti, Matteo Hallissey, Stefano Galieni.
“The question aims to return to the law in force until 1992, with the reinstatement of the term of 5 years of uninterrupted legal residence in Italy for the purposes of submitting the application for citizenship by foreign adult citizens”, concludes Magi.
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