The Democratic Party's (PD)
Rosatellum electoral law proposal "has the numbers in the
(Lower) House, now we have to see in the Senate", PD leader and
ex-premier Matteo Renzi said Wednesday.
The Lower House's Constitutional affairs committee on Tuesday
adopted the so-called Rosatellum proposal forwarded by Premier
Paolo Gentiloni's PD as the white paper for a possible new
election law.
The 'Rosatellum,' named after PD House whip Ettore Rosato,
envisages the election of half of MPs on a first-past-the-post
basis and the other half by pure proportional representation
from blocked party lists.
The bill sets a 5% threshold for seats in parliament.
Italy needs a new election law as its systems for the Senate
and the Lower House are different following the rejection of
ex-premier Matteo Renzi's Constitutional reform in a referendum
in December.
The centre-left PD and the Northern League were among the
parties to vote in favour of the move, while the
anti-establishment 5-Star Movement and Silvio Berlusconi's Forza
Italia were against.
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