11 THE ITALIAN LAW JOURNAL NO. 1 (2025)
From a ‘Wounded Constitution’ to a Dismantled Constitution?
Isabelle Boucobza Over recent decades, French-style presidentialism has grown increasingly captivating within Italy’s legal and political spheres. This enchantment is perhaps most evidently manifested in the speeches and proposed constitutional reforms advanced by the incumbent Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, and her adherents. Although today Giorgia Meloni’s presidentialism appears in the guise of premierato, her aspiration to approximate the features of the French model—the election of a leader directly by voters, bypassing political parties and Parliament—remains perfectly intact. This desire for rapprochement provides an opportunity to present a brief comparison, explanatory and critical, highlighting the limits of the explicit ideas defended by those promoting this reform, and revealing the implicit ideas behind their discourse, which have the objective of dismantling the 1947 Constitution with its guarantees and checks and balances. DOI 10.23815/2421-2156.ITALJ ISSN 2421-2156
How Fascination for French-Style Presidentialism Puts the 1947 Italian Constitution at Risk 
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