(see related)The co-chair of an
anti-reform committee in parliament said Monday enough lawmakers
are on board to request a referendum.
"We have the certainty that at least 126 MPs will ask for
the referendum" to strike down Premier Matteo Renzi's
Constitutional reforms, said MP Alfiero Grandi.
The anti-reform committee was officially launched earlier
in the day to prevent "2016 from becoming the year of the end of
the Republic born 70 years ago," its supporters said.
The anti-reform referendum is being promoted by Italian
Left (SI) - a splinter from Renzi's Democratic party - and the
anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S).
Renzi's reform bill would change the Constitution by making
the Senate into a slimmer body with limited lawmaking powers,
thus streamlining Italy's notoriously slow and costly political
machinery.
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