Citizenship referendum: the appeal of Ghali and Zerocalcare to collect signatures

Almost 300 thousand signatures. “The collection is traveling at an impressive speed thanks also to the mobilization of many personalities from the fields of culture, sport, entertainment, academia and journalism. This demonstrates two things: first, that there is an enormous will to change the law on unjust, cruel and uncivilized citizenship, that Italians are far ahead of others Meloni, Salvini, Vannacci and Tajani who instead would like tougher laws for those born, raised, educated and live permanently in Italy – says the secretary of +Europa, Riccardo Magion the referendum on citizenship presented last September 4 – Now we need a final sprint: there is a week left to dedicate to reaching 500 thousand signatures to go to the referendum next year in the spring”.

The platform is tilted

In just a few hours, however, the site (referendumcittadinanza.it) went haywire “due to too many accesses”, as explained by the promoting committee. In the early afternoon, in fact, it was impossible to complete the procedure for leaving one’s signature on the platform made available to the Ministry of Justice, which has been inaccessible for hours now. A warning explains that the problem is due to server problems. “We were traveling at a rate of around 10 thousand signatures per hour when the ministry’s public platform for collecting signatures went haywire due to too many signatures – explains Magi from +Europa – For around two hours thousands of people have been trying to sign for the unsuccessful citizenship referendum, receiving error messages from the platform. We immediately reported the episode to the competent offices and await a response shortly. However, it remains very serious that a government platform, designed for this objective, is unable to keep up the flow of signatures of these hours”.

The times and the supporters

Time is running out. The goal is in fact to collect 500 thousand signatures by September 30th. The proposal is to reduce the years of legal residence necessary for non-EU citizens to apply for Italian citizenship from 10 to 5. Many famous people have left their names: by the cartoonist Zero limestone who launched a video appeal to “bring back some justice and allow those who are in Italy, live and have relationships here, to have the same rights as others”; to the singer Expensive who on social media invites people to sign the referendum on citizenship because “we need all of us now” (publishing the link in bio to join to sign up). Among the signatures those also stand out Roberto Saviano, Alessandro Barbero, Elly Schein, Mimmo Lucano, Matteo Garrone, Julio Velasco, Ghali, Giobbe Covatta, Patrick Zaki, Malika Ayane, Giuliano Sangiorgi, Levante, La Representative di Lista, Dargen D’Amico, Cosmo, Loretta Grace, Margherita Vicario, Giancane, Giovanni Truppi, Valeria Solarino, Aurora Leone, Cristina Fogazzi, Lorenzo Tosa, Iacopo Melio, Ascanio Celestini, Amir Issa, Mauro Biani, Djarah Kan, Cathy La Torre, Carlotta Vagnoli, Fumetti Brutti, Riccardo Cucchi, Yendry Cony Fiorentino , Coco Rebecca Edogambe, Lorenzo Bernardi, Alessandra Campedelli, Marco Bentivogli, Daniela Collu, Selvaggia Lucarelli, Elena Cecchettin, Phega Moshir Pour, Lina Simons, Anna Foglietta, KarmaB, Simone Alliva, Paola Turci, Myss Keta, Aurora Leone.

How to sign

To sign the referendum you just need to have the spid and connect to www.referendumcittadinanza.it. From there you connect to the Ministry of Justice website and in a few clicks you sign complete with a receipt. Otherwise you can vote at the promoters’ stands or in their offices, as long as you have an identity document with you. Many mayors and mayors who signed the referendum on citizenship, from Roberto Gualtieri (Rome) a Stefano Lo Russo (Turin), from Matteo Lepore (Bologna) a Sara Funaro (Florence) e Vittoria Ferdinandi (Perugia), to which is also added Gaetano Manfredi (Napoli).