Referendum 'No' win means new Senate law (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, October 21 - Senate Speaker Pietro Grasso said Friday if a December 4 referendum nixes the government's constitutional reform law, a new election law for the Senate will have to written. The reform would scrap the Senate and replace it with an assembly of regional representatives. "If the reform doesn't get approved, we'll have to come up with an electoral law for the Senate because the Constitutional Court declared the previous one illegitimate, and lawmakers only came up with an electoral law covering the House," Grasso said.
    "No matter which way the referendum vote goes, I can says that parliament will have a lot of work on its plate in the remaining part of the legislature (ending in March 2018)," Grasso said.