Story of a referendum

I'll tell you in three points the story of the last referendum, which tragically ended today.

The yellow dot (August 2011) is the one in which Draghi, in his infamous letter written as incoming President of the ECB, asked the Italian government for "a thorough review of the rules governing the hiring and firing of employees" (the other requests are detailed here ).

The red dot (January 2014) is the one in which Renzi announced the Jobs Act .

The green spot is where a yellow union cloaked in a red flag took a resounding beating, failing to even reach 30% participation (amen).

Yesterday my Uga ( semper laudetur ) asked me about the referendum, a topic that rightly interests young people. My answer: "A referendum with which the PD, which took away workers' rights when unemployment was at 13% and rising, wants to give them back now that unemployment is at 5.9% and falling. Then you do it…".

I was unemotionally factual , as Capezzone would say. What she did next I don't know, but frankly I don't care.

(… but I'm happy, also because I have a clear conscience , he doesn't …)

This is a machine translation of a post (in Italian) written by Alberto Bagnai and published on Goofynomics at the URL https://goofynomics.blogspot.com/2025/06/storia-di-un-referendum.html on Mon, 09 Jun 2025 14:59:00 +0000. Some rights reserved under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license.