Parliamentary Inertia in the Election of ConstitutionalJudges in Italy

Constitutional democracy, inherently a delicate fusion of the noun “democracy” and the adjective “constitutional,” faces challenges in both jurisdictions with centralized and specialized constitutional courts and those without such established courts. In the former, recent assaults on constitutional democracy have directly targeted these very courts. In countries where populist movements have garnered significant electoral support, their self-proclaimed role as the sole representatives of the true will of a unified people has led them to assert that their democratic legitimacy surpasses the technocratic authority of constitutional courts.