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Renzi 'open to amending reform bill'

Renzi 'open to amending reform bill'

But premier's office denies concessions offered to rebels

Rome, 17 April 2015, 15:37

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Premier Matteo Renzi has said he is open to amending the government's Constitutional reform bill aimed at revamping Italy's slow, costly political machinery. But his office also stressed that this does not mean he is set to make concessions to opponents to the reform, including a minority with the premier's own centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
    The bill currently features the controversial transformation of the Senate into a leaner assembly of local-government representatives with limited lawmaking powers.
    The aim is to save money and make passing legislation easier.
    The reform, especially the part that would see the Upper House no longer directly elected by the public, is staunchly opposed by many lawmakers.
    Renzi said in an interview published in Friday La Repubblica that he has opened talks on the Constitutional reform bill with the leader of the rebels, former PD leader Pier Luigi Bersani.
    "Can we change the Constitutional reform and return to an elective Senate? As far I'm concerned, we can," Renzi told daily newspaper La Repubblica. He added that the important thing is that the current system, in which all legislation needs to approved by both equally powerful houses of parliament, is abandoned. Sources close to Bersani said the premier needed to "lay his cards on the table" in the light of those comments.
    But the significance of the remarks is open to interpretation, as the Upper House could still be considered an elected assembly, even if the members would be voted in via regional and local elections, rather than direct ballots.
    Indeed, premier office sources said there would be "no horse-trading, there's no going back".
    The Constitutional reform bill is the result of the so-called Nazareno Pact that Renzi struck last year with ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi, the leader of the opposition, centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party.
    Berlusconi has since said he no longer views the pact as binding after the PD had President Sergio Mattarella elected in January's despite FI's not backing his candidacy.
    The Nazareno Pact also led to a bill for a new election law and the PD minority is hostile to that too.
    Renzi told La Repubblica that he was confident of winning definitive approval for his government's 'Italicum' bill for a new election system despite the minority's opposition. "I'm relaxed. We'll have the vote anyway," he told the Rome-based daily, adding that he expected some FI members to back it.
    His office on Friday stressed that "talks (on the Constitutional reform) will go ahead, but there won't be any deals or concessions. It's nothing to do with reality to talk of offers made to the rebels".
   

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