Electoral reform by December says Renzi

(ANSA) - Rome, November 26 - Premier Matteo Renzi said Wednesday after meeting with President Giorgio Napolitano that he will push key reforms through "between December and January".
    "We will move very quickly in order to make Italy more simple and more efficient, with fewer politicians, fewer regional powers, and a streamlined electoral law," Renzi told public broadcaster RAI TG1 evening news.
    The premier went on to say his government will make it to the end of its mandate in 2018 "as long as parliament keeps working hard on reform, including at the weekend".
    Many opposition parties - beginning with dissenters within Silvio Berlusconi's center-right Forza Italia (FI) party - fear Renzi's drive for electoral reform means he will call early elections under a new system that would likely hand his Democratic Party (PD) a relatively easy victory.
    Berlusconi however has entered into a pact on electoral law reform with Renzi in exchange for what he hopes will be a seat at the table when the time comes to choose a successor to Napolitano.