The No victory in Italy's
Constitutional reform referendum confirms "the peculiarities of
a country that is now divided, united only by a mutual distrust
that translates into a fruitless stasis in both government
action and in reform of the State," Vatican daily L'Osservatore
Romano said on its front page Monday in an article on Premier
Matteo Renzi's resignation. The daily said President Sergio
Mattarella "now has to unpick a rather intricate knot" and will
"first of all see if there are the conditions to carry on with
this parliament". Apart from the anti-establishment 5-Star
Movement and the anti-euro Northern League, who are both pushing
for a snap election, it said, the other parties seem to prefer
either a technocratic government or an ad hoc government to
reform the electoral law.
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