Il trattamento economico post-mandato dei membri di assemblee legislative: fondamento costituzionale, fonti di disciplina e strumenti di tutela

L'articolo affronta i problemi costituzionalistici relativi al trattamento economico successivo al termine del mandato dei membri delle Camere (e dei Consigli regionali) dal punto di vista delle fonti di regolazione, delle sedi di tutela dei diritti e di vincoli costituzionali alla modifica, specie retroattiva, della disciplina di tali trattamenti

The essay analyzes some problems of economic treatment of former members of parliamentary assemblies (Parliament and regional Councils) in the Italian experience, from a constitutional perspective. The theme is framed in the historical constitutional context and then focused for what concerns relevant sources of law: law (also with reference to the stately-regional dimension); different kinds of rule of orders of parliamentary Chambers. Peculiar attention is dedicated to the theme of judicial protection of rights, especially for what concerns internal bodies of Chambers as “judges” in this matter, as (yet) justified by recent decisions of Italian Constitutional Court. The essay deals with the problem of the substantive nature of these treatments, identifying in them a social security nature (even they are not pensions in a strict sense). From this nature arises a number of constitutional limits to reform measures of the treatments, particularly if they have retroactive effects.