Details emerged on Wednesday of a
proposal to be presented by the ruling Democratic Party (PD) to
the Lower House Constitutional affairs committee for an adjusted
German-style electoral law to replace the 2015 Italicum that was
declared partly unconstitutional earlier this year.
The new draft law, dubbed 'Rosatellum' after PD Lower House
whip Ettore Rosato, envisages the election of half of the 630
members on a first-past-the-post basis and the other half by
pure proportional representation from blocked party lists of
four candidates only, according to a version seen by ANSA.
The bill sets a 5% threshold for seats in parliament.
"The PD has owned up: it wants an Anticinquestellum (a law
against the Five Star Movement, M5S) in order to create an
electoral ragbag typical of the First Republic," M5S members of
the Lower House Constitutional Affairs Committee said in a
statement.
"They are not interested in the best electoral law for the
country, but only in a pigsty law against the M5S," they added.
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