Meloni says centre right will bring in presidentialism alone

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 23 - Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader Giorgia Meloni said in the centre right's last rally before Sunday's general election that the bloc she leads will bring in presidentialism on its own if as expected it gets a two thirds majority in parliament.
    Making the election of the Italian president a direct one by the Italia people, and not as now by parliament, is one of FdI's flagship platform pledges.
    "We will make a reform in a presidential direction and we will be happy if the Left wants to give uis a hand but if the Italisn give us the numbers we will also do it on our own," Meloni told a huge rally in Rome's central Piazza del Popolo alongside allies Matteo Salvini of the League and Silvio Berlusconi of Forza Italia (FI).
    If the centre right gets two thirds of the House and Senate in Sunday's vote it can pass presidentialism by changing the Italian Constitution without having to have it confirmed in a referendum by the Italian people.
    Meloni's vow was condemned in a newspaper interview Friday by the centre left Democratic Party (PD) leader Enrico Letta.
    "Yesterday the last mask slipped: they want to rip up the Constitution, also on their own, And they do not make a secret of it. We will prevent them from doing so," the ex premier told Corriere della Sera. (ANSA).