M5S slams Renzi on election law

(ANSA) - Rome, June 30 - The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) on Thursday commented on Premier Matteo Renzi's rumoured plans to change Italy's new electoral law by saying that "you cannot fight the wind with your hands".
    The comment came in a post on the blog by party leader Beppe Grillo, who has said the M5S is ready to govern after winning several key mayoral run-offs including Rome and Turin.
    A chastened Renzi is rumoured to be thinking of changing the 'Italicum' election law so that it does not favour the M5S in run-offs. "Renzi wants to change the cards on the table because he is afraid of losing. A cheap cardsharp with his tail between his legs," Grillo's blog called him, noting that "it is impossible to change the electoral law to prevent the inevitable, you cannot stop the wind with your hands. "When M5S gets into the government, the electoral law will be anchored to the Constitution to prevent parties from changing it whenever it is useful for them to do so."