Premier Matteo Renzi and
ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi will meet soon to discuss their
election-reform pact, sources said Thursday.
The pair discussed the pact during a phone call Wednesday
where Renzi reassured his predecessor that the reforms are still
a priority, said sources with Berlusconi's centre-right Forza
Italia (FI) political party.
Berlusconi also sought assurances that approval of the
election reforms will not become a political tool for members of
Renzi's centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
Earlier this week, Renzi said that Italy's proposed new
electoral law is "historic" and it is "critical" that it be
approved to ensure clear winners able to govern.
Current voting laws make that impossible, causing
legislative blockades, Renzi told PD members earlier this month.
"Having an electoral law that deliver a winner - hopefully,
it will be us - is only possible," with the new law based on
reforms, he said.
Those reforms have been controversial because they were
negotiated between the two leaders of the rival political
parties.
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