Oppositions get Senate quorum

(ANSA) - Rome, April 19 - The oppositions to Premier Matteo Renzi's centre-left government on Tuesday obtained the quorum of one fifth of the Senate, as well as the House, needed to request a referendum on Renzi's flagship Constitutional reform abolishing the Senate. The 65 Semators' signatures were gathered among the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia, the Northern League, and Sinistra Italiana. Renzi has staked his political future on the October referendum on reforms to make government cheaper and easier.