Premier Matteo Renzi's
government lost a vote in a Lower House committee on Wednesday
over its Constitutional reform bill.
An amendment to the bill, which stipulated that the new
Senate should have no members appointed by the president, was
approved with 22 votes in favour and 20 against, even though the
government was opposed to it.
Reform Minister Maria Elena Boschi downplayed the way the
vote went.
"The final word belongs to the floor of the Lower House,"
she said.
The Constitutional reform bill would revamp the nation's
institutions, transforming the Senate into a leaner assembly of
local-government representatives with limited law-making powers.
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