Powerful employers' lobby
Confindustria on Thursday swung its weight behind a Yes vote in
October's referendum on a reform to Italy's slow, costly
political machinery. Confindustria's governing council voted
unanimously in favour of new president Vincenzo Boccia's call to
back the Yes vote. It said "the Constitutional reform looks to
the country's general interest over the medium-to-long term and
must be supported, whatever the political or electoral situation
is. It is of course improvable but it is an indispensable
pre-condition for realising the reforms needed to relaunch
growth". The reform, on which Premier Matteo Renzi has staked
his political future, aims to end gridlock and cut costs by
turning the Senate into a leaner, regionally based assembly with
limited lawmaking powers.
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