ABSTRACT
L'Unita published a frontpage editorial by Professor Gianfranco Pasquino of the University of Bologna on June 11, 1991, pleading "in the name of the sovereign people" for further electoral reforms. The referendum's supporters were jubilant. L'Unita bellowed from its normally demure front page that a "reformist landslide" had triumphed; La Repubblica shrilled that "Clean Italy has won" and claimed that June 9 was a "day of rejoicing" for Italian democracy. L'Unita published a frontpage editorial by Professor Gianfranco Pasquino of the University of Bologna on June 11, 1991, pleading "in the name of the sovereign people" for further electoral reforms. On the issue of electoral reform, Mario Segni had placed great hopes in Craxi and had even toyed with the "presidentialist" solution being aired by some members of the socialist intelligentsia in the early 1980s. The main reason people voted for the referendum, was well expressed by Achille Occhetto in an article in L'Unita on the eve of the poll.
