Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 July 2018
La legge 10 dicembre 1993, n. 515 costituisce un vero e proprio «sistema elettorale di contorno». Pur constando di soli 20 articoli, si tratta di un testo di notevole complessità e assai eterogeneo. Questo saggio si propone di illustrarne genesi e contenuti, di mettere in luce alcune delle problematiche che ha sollevato e di esprimere qualche valutazione sulla sua prima applicazione in occasione delle elezioni del 1994.
Four months after the introduction of the new electoral laws for the Senate and the Chamber of deputies, the Italian Parliament passed an entirely new discipline concerning various aspects of political campaigning before national elections: access to media, contribution limitations for candidates, expenditure limitations for both candidates and parties, discipline of opinion polls during the two weeks before election day, amount of state reimbursement for election expenditures of candidates and parties and so on. In this article the author describes the main contents of the new law and the debate it has raised, also attempting to assess its first implementation during the 1994 electoral campaign.