Northern League leader Matteo
Salvini said Monday the League was willing to accept "any"
electoral system including German-style proportional
representation (PR) as long as an election in September could be
secured.
He added, however, that the League's preference was for a
first-past-the-post system.
Over the weekend the centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party of
ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi made overtures to the centre-left
Democratic Party (PD) of ex-premier Matteo Renzi, saying it
would accept a German-style law as long as it was PR.
The PD, which last week proposed a 50% PR, 50%
first-past-the-post system, said it would be willing to talk to
FI.
Pundits say recent manoeuvres on the election law have upped
the possibility of the next election taking place late this year
rather than early next.
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