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Thirteen months after succeeding Silvio Berlusconi at the Presidency of the Council, Mario Monti resigned 21 December 2012. Actively supported by the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, his government of 'technicians' did not survive the withdrawal of support of berlusconian Senators during a confidence vote on December 6, which has the effect of shortening the XVI legislature with early elections in two months set for 24 and 25 February 2013. The socio-economic crisis, scandals in series and breakthrough of the Movement 5 stars partial local elections in addition to the uncertainty that characterizes a political game whose polarization, very thrust between 1996 and 2008, is in decline. The offer electoral indeed will focus around four poles: the center-left Partito Democratico dominated by (PD), the center-right Berlusconi's PDL (Popolo della Liberta), the centredroit forms around Monti combining new party Scelta civica (SC), Unione di Centro (UDC) and Futuro e Liberta per l'Italia (FLI), and what appears as a radical novelty, the Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) leads the satirist Beppe Grillo which is repugnant to position themselves on the left-right axis. Adapted from the source document.

Launched by UDC representatives with the aim of circumventing political and judicial decisions made at both local and national levels, the 2009 federal popular Initiative calling for a ban on the construction of minarets rekindled the stigmatisation of Muslims living in Switzerland. Within the prevalent institutional configuration it moreover revived controversies surrounding issues such as direct democracy versus fundamental rights, or 'the will of the people' versus 'the power of the judges' whether national or international. 'Judicialization' is a polysemous concept. It will not be understood here as the transfer to the courts of matters of political significance - in this instance the public regulation of religion - but as a process of juridification (or juridicalization) in which court rulings were constantly anticipated in the political debate provoked by the popular initiative. Adapted from the source document.