The centre right said after a summit
called after disappointing local-election results Wednesday that
it intended to forge ahead as a coalition and that is opposed to
any bill reintroducing proportional representation (PR) to
Italy.
Coalition leaders Matteo Salvini of the rightwing League party,
Giorgia Meloni of the rightwing opposition Brothers of Italy
(FdI) party and Silvio Berlusconi of the centre-right Forza
Italia (FI) party said "the centre right intends to continue to
work as a coalition and has consequently confirmed its
unwillingness to support a change in the electoral law moving in
a proportional direction".
Meloni requested the summit after the centre left beat the
centre right by 5-1 in Italy's biggest cities, winning Rome,
Milan, Naples, Turin and Bologna and only losing Trieste.
Fdi is the only major party standing in opposition to Mario
Draghi's national unity government.
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