From The My Beautiful, Wacky Italian Cousins Department:

The world famous political apathy of Italian voters saves untold thousands of lives and souls.

ROME (AP) - Efforts to loosen Italy's assisted-fertility laws in a national referendum failed Monday because low voter turnout invalidated the balloting - a victory for the Vatican.
Turnout must be at least 50 percent-plus one of the electorate for the vote in a referendum to be valid. In two days of balloting, only about 26 percent had voted, according to nearly complete returns released by the Interior Ministry.

If you had had a couple hundred governments since WWII, you'd stay home too.