(ANSA) - Rome, May 29 - Italy is set for a crunch week on an
election law that may lead to elections this autumn.
Ex-premier and Democratic Party (PD) leader Matteo Renzi said
a deal is possible this week with ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's
centre-right Forza Italia (FI) and comedian Beppe Grillo's
anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) on a German-style
proportional model with an entry bar of 5%.
FI has already come out in favour of the German model and
yesterday M5S voters voted online to back it too.
Small parties have come out against the entry bar, which they
say is too high and will block them - although the Progressive
and Democratic Movement (MDP), a PD splinter group, reckons they
will be able to make it.
Tuesday will see a key meeting of the PD to assess progress
on the law and possibly give a green light to a pact with FI and
the M5S.
Elections in the autumn, instead of at the end of the
parliamentary session's natural term in February 2018, will pose
the risk of needing extraordinary administration for next year's
budget, pundits say.
The PD is already gearing up to cope with this eventuality,
sources in the party said.
Crunch week for election law (2)
PD-FI-M5S deal on German model seen