The details of the ruling of the Italian Constitutional Court that benefited a great -grandson from the restrictions of the decree promoted by Giorgia Meloni and that marks a light for those who had been excluded.
The government of Giorgia Meloni He had issued a decree, 36/2025, which restricted access to Italian citizenship by offspring, but the justice of Italy ruled on a particular case in what would be a valuable precedent for those who had been left out of the regulations. Indeed, based on Law 91, the Italian justice recognized blood without generational limit.
While at the moment it is a particular case, the ruling would sit jurisprudence For those great -great -grandchildren and descendants farther who had been affected by the restrictions imposed from the Miloni decree.
The decree of Giorgia Meloni that modified the right of blood
Meloni’s decree introduced modifications to Law 74, and in practice affected the Italian descendants of Argentina. The letter states that only the children and grandchildren of Italians who have been born in Italy can do the process to achieve citizenship in consulates. Therefore, the failure of the Constitutional Court Italian in one case, it could be a lighthouse.
The established reform stipulates that the citizenship process administrative or consular was relegated only to the children and grandchildren of Italians born in Italian territory, excluding from that benefit to the following generations. The only exception in those cases fell into those parents who had lived at least two consecutive years in Italy before the birth of their children. Finally, the reform established as a deadline for the old benefit to all those presentations that would have been made before March 27 of this year.
Thus, those who were left out of these measures, only had the Judicial route as a way of processing citizens. The amendments raised by the decree were based on the fact that for the Meloni government many foreigners processed citizens only to obtain the European passport and its benefits.
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The scope of the new ruling over Italian citizenship
The judges analyzed a case presented by a Italian great -grandson asked for citizenship and had been rejected by the criteria that correspond to Decree 36/2025.
At least four courts had presented objections because They did not believe the link valid so that the great -grandson could obtain citizenship. Meanwhile, the Constitutional Court determined that justice must intervene only when the constitutional principles are violated, a fact that did not happen in this specific case.
The crucial thing about this ruling could be in Law 91, which manifests the Blood law regardless of generation. This could be very important for several similar cases.
Source: Ambito
