(ANSA) - Rome, May 30 A bill creating a new German-style
electoral law is set to hit the floor of the Lower House Tuesday
after an agreement between the ruling centre-left Democratic
Party (PD) and the anti-establishment 5-Star movement on a
proportional representation (PR) system with an entry bar set at
5% and no winner's bonus.
Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano, leader of the PD's junior
government partner the centre-right Popular Area (AP), attacked
the deal saying he did not understand "The PD's impatience to
take Italy to the vote three or four months early, in the middle
of the budget bill's passage".
Alfano appealed to the PD and its leader Matteo Renzi, the
former premier, to save the economy from losing billions of
euros amid a fall in stock prices and a sharp rise in the spread
between German and Italian 10-year bonds.
As for the 5% entry bar, Alfano said the AP would "join with
others and get over it".
Meanwhile ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the
centre-right Forza Italia party which has already signalled an
OK to the new law, said that "if it was for me I'd put the bar
at 8%."
Talks between parties will continue today and there will be a
PD meeting this afternoon.
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