The Senate on Tuesday approved
Article 1 of a bill on directly electing the Italian premier,
repealing the President of the Republic's power to appoint
senators for life.
The current life senators remain in office.
Premier Giorgia Meloni has labelled the measure to let the
Italian people directly elect their premiers as "the mother of
all reforms".
It is expected to go to a referendum having failed to muster the
two thirds majority in both houses required for a Constitutional
reform.
Meloni recently said she was staking her political future on the
reform, only to do a U-turn and say a defeat in the referendum
would not hurt her or her government.
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