ITALIAN ELECTION

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 February 1929, Page 9

ITALIAN ELECTION

PREPARATIONS for the elections to the Italian Chamber, which will take place in the early part of March next, have already begun, writes the Rome correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph.” The Parliamentary Commission appointed-to select public associations not incorporated which will have the right to name candidates has already issued its report, which has been approved by Signor Mussolini. It is understood that SOO candidates will be chosen by the incorporated associations, which now number thirteen and comprise all the recognised Labour and industrial syndicates, such as the Federation of Agricultural Labourers, the Federation, of industrial Labourers, and the Federation of Employers, As there are many other associations not incorporated it was left to the Parliamentary Commission to allot the choice of 200 candidates to them, which has now been done. First among them are the National Association of Combatants and the Association of War Disabled, who will respectively be allowed to choose fortyfive and thirty candidates. A further thirty candidates may be chosen by Civil Service, associations, and twentyfive bv associations of primary and intermediary schools. The remainder of the 200 are to be chosen by other,’ recognised but not incorporated asso-. ciations.

NOVEL METHODS

! These 200)'with the SOO candidates [ selected by the federations, will make |up the 1000 from among whom the 1 Grand Fascist Council will choose 400 actual . candidates. The electors will then be asked to accept- or reject en bloc the entire list of 400 candidates so submitted; No electoral campaign properly socalled will take, place. The proceedings will be entirely official, and will be conducted by the Prefects. The Prefect in each of the nienty-two provirie'es will, on some date before March, convoke an Electoral Assembly of all th e delegates of the federations in his province and deliver, what may. |be called an official electoral address. This will be fallowed by speeches from the delegates of the federations, and then the candidates of each province will be selected under the supervision of the Prefect. • - , H When the results from the ninety-two provinces have been received, the Grand Council will pick out the- 400 candidates to be chosen, and their elec* tion will be simply confirmed or rejected by the electorate, which, it is expected, will consist of about 3,000,000 voters (out of a total population' of over 40,000,000) of various corporations and associations and. citizens entitled to vote by the recent Electoral Law t