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Massimo: Teacher, in these days I’ve heard my parents and the tv talk about the elections all the time. But why are they so important?

Elena: Sometimes I can’t watch my favourite film.

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Pertini: Boys the right to vote is a very important achievement. Not long ago some people couldn’t vote, in particular women. Nowadays thanks to article 48 of the Constitution every citizen has the right to vote.

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Carlo: So can I vote?

Pertini: No, now you are still 16 and you must wait to be 18.

Art. 48 Cost.

Any citizen, male or female, who has attained majority, is entitled to vote. The vote is personal and equal, free and secret. The exercise thereof is a civic duty. The law lays down the requirements and modalities for citizens residing abroad to exercise their right to vote and guarantees that this right is effective. A constituency of Italians abroad shall be established for elections to the Houses of Parliament; the number of seats of such constituency is set forth in a constitutional provision according to criteria established by law. The right to vote cannot be restricted except for civil incapacity or as a consequence of an irrevocable penal sentence or in cases of moral unworthiness as laid down by law.