Former Democratic Party (PD)
leader Pier Luigi Bersani said Monday the PD-led government of
Premier Matteo Renzi should think a little more about people's
day-to-day problems and less about an upcoming constitutional
reform referendum. "We should also take a little time to work on
other things, because people can't live off referendums just
like they can't live off the electoral law," said Bersani, a
leftwing critic of Renzi and himself a former premier. "The
issues are employment, immigration, investments, the economy".
Renzi has staked his political future on the October referendum
on his constitutional reform law, which is designed to make
Italy's notoriously slow, costly and unwieldy political
machinery slimmer, faster, cheaper, and more efficient. He has
said he will step down if a 'No' vote nixing his reforms
prevails. His critics from within his own PD party have accused
him of personal grandstanding to the detriment of the real
issues the center-left party - which is still Italy's biggest,
but whose primacy is slowly being eroded by the
anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) - should concern itself
with.
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