Page "Referendums in Italy" Paragraph 24

A notorious example of this is the law on political party financing.

The law states that after an election, every political party that has been elected to parliament is entitled to a monetary " refund " ( taken from public funds ) for every single vote they obtained.

The Italian public has voted to abolish this law in legislative referendums in 1978 and again in 1993.

Both referendums meet the quorum, but the law was reinstated under different terms.

A third legislative referendum was held again in 2000 to abolish party financing but it failed to meet the quorum, however, of those who did vote, over 70 % voted to abolish the law for the third time.