Renzi, Berlusconi to meet on reforms

(ANSA) - Rome, October 30 - Premier Matteo Renzi and ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi will meet soon to discuss their election-reform pact, sources said Thursday.
    The pair discussed the pact during a phone call Wednesday where Renzi reassured his predecessor that the reforms are still a priority, said sources with Berlusconi's centre-right Forza Italia (FI) political party.
    Berlusconi also sought assurances that approval of the election reforms will not become a political tool for members of Renzi's centre-left Democratic Party (PD).
    Earlier this week, Renzi said that Italy's proposed new electoral law is "historic" and it is "critical" that it be approved to ensure clear winners able to govern.
    Current voting laws make that impossible, causing legislative blockades, Renzi told PD members earlier this month.
    "Having an electoral law that deliver a winner - hopefully, it will be us - is only possible," with the new law based on reforms, he said.
    Those reforms have been controversial because they were negotiated between the two leaders of the rival political parties.