The citizenship referendum will take held. The gathering of signatures, as demonstrated by the Ministry of Justice's website, which allowed people to sign up online, surpassed 500 thousand, the quantity required to file the question with the Court of Cassation. The plan, which was launched on September 6, intends to cut the time it takes to earn Italian citizenship from 10 to 5 years of legal residency, so facilitating the integration of about 2.5 million foreign residents. This idea, endorsed by a number of parties and organizations, including Arci, ActionAid, Oxfam, and Libera, coincides with the parliamentary debate on the ius scholae, which has yet to yield meaningful results. The citizenship referendum does not establish new criteria for obtaining citizenship, such as ius soli or ius scholae, but rather seeks to shorten the time required for naturalization. Currently, Italian law states that a foreigner can only receive citizenship after ten years of legal and unbroken residence. The referendum would cut the period in half, making citizenship more accessible to people who live. It is thus a distinct proposal from the ius soli, which has previously been defeated in Parliament, as well as the ius scholae, which was rejected at least provisionally in the Security bill in the Chamber of Deputies only a few days ago, and which proposes that foreign minors who have completed a school cycle in Italy be granted citizenship, but even this measure has not been approved.