Senate Speaker Pietro Grasso
said Friday if a December 4 referendum nixes the government's
constitutional reform law, a new election law for the Senate
will have to written.
The reform would scrap the Senate and replace it with an
assembly of regional representatives.
"If the reform doesn't get approved, we'll have to come up
with an electoral law for the Senate because the Constitutional
Court declared the previous one illegitimate, and lawmakers only
came up with an electoral law covering the House," Grasso said.
"No matter which way the referendum vote goes, I can says
that parliament will have a lot of work on its plate in the
remaining part of the legislature (ending in March 2018),"
Grasso said.
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