Free Trieste’s complaint reaches the United Nations:
«Italy cannot summon its elections in the present-day Free Territory of Trieste».
Trieste, 18 January 2013 – The Free Trieste Movement requested the UN Security Council’s intervention about Italian elections: they are taking place on February 24th and 25th, and are summoned also in the present-day Free Territory of Trieste.
Summoning Italian elections in Trieste constitutes a breach of art. 21 of the 1947 Italian Peace Treaty that makes Trieste independent from Italy.
The Treaty’s annexes provide Trieste with its own electoral provisions, and the Italian Government committed to respect them when it accepted to exercise temporary civil administration over the present-day Free Territory (1954).
This is why Italy, a third Country, cannot summon its own election in Trieste. Trieste is a State since 15 September 1947, which means, before the coming into force of Italy’s own Constitution (which at arts. 10 and 117 recognizes the primacy of international law). Not to mention the many successive laws enforcing and ratifying it, even when it comes to elections.
For all those reasons, Free Trieste informed not only the UN Security Council, the Guarantor of the Free Territory under its own Resolution S/RES/16 (1947), but also the representatives of the Italian Government in its role of Trieste’s provisional administering Government.
The people of Trieste are not going to vote in an election illegally summoned under the law of another State. Some of them are also going to object it at the polling stations.
Indeed, Free Trieste is organizing an information campaign to explain the people of Trieste how to effectively exercise their rights to oppose the Italian elections that were illegally summoned in their State.
The present-day Free Territory of Trieste (since 1992).