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Renzi not backing down on Italicum

Renzi not backing down on Italicum

PD to remove 10 members from Constitutional Affairs committee

Rome, 20 April 2015, 20:07

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Premier Matteo Renzi on Monday failed to rule out the option of using a confidence vote in the Lower House to help the government's so-called Italicum electoral reform bill clear what he hopes will be its final reading in parliament. "We'll see when the time comes for parliamentary debate," Renzi told RTL radio. The Italicum seeks to replace the dysfunctional system - the so-called pigsty law - that was declared invalid by the Constitutional Court after being blamed for the inconclusive outcome of the 2013 general election. But many lawmakers, including a minority within Renzi's own centre-left Democratic Party (PD), are demanding changes to the bill, filing a total of 135 amendments. Of these, 20 were from the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) and 13 from PD dissidents opposed to what they say is Renzi's attempt to dilute the power of parliament in favor of a strong executive.
    With 38 of those amendments ruled inadmissible, the 50-member Lower House Constitutional Affairs committee is set to begin voting on the remaining 97 on Tuesday afternoon.
    But before that, the ruling PD is set to remove ten of its rebel members from the Constitutional Affairs committee - where the PD has 23 seats - after they announced they would not vote for the Italicum. "We said that we do not intend to vote for the individual articles...(of the bill)," said Andrea Giorgis, one of the PD rebels on the committee. "We were told that we will be replaced (by the party)".
    The Italicum is the result of a deal between Renzi and former premier Silvio Berlusconi, whose opposition, centre-right Forza Italia (FI) party has since pulled its support for the bill and for a separate bill overhauling Italy's slow, costly political machinery. The Italicum would, among other provisions, award bonus seats to the party that garners at least 40% of the vote to ensure it has a working majority in parliament. A run-off round of voting will take place to decide who gets the bonus seats if no party crosses the 40% threshold. It would also allow voters to choose most of their MPs via preferences, with about a third of candidates nominated directly by the party - but the dissenting PD minority wants all lawmakers elected on the basis of voter preferences.
    Renzi said the Italicum is a good bill because it would allow voters not parties to pick MPs. "This electoral law has an advantage, which is that we'll have a clear winner thanks to the run-off vote," Renzi said. "I am premier by choice of parliament and the president of the Republic, which is nonsensical. With this law on the other hand we will know for certain who won, and there won't be any more back-room deals". The Italicum is slated to go to the floor of the House early next week.
   

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