Deputy Premier, Transport Minister
and rightwing League party leader Matteo Salvini said Sunday he
would not change the role of the Italian president as arbiter of
Italian political life in mooted Constitutional reforms, but
would bring in an elected premier to assure solid governments
and fresh elections when premiers fall, ending Italy's recent
tendency to have unelected premiers and governments cobbled
together in parliament.
"I would not touch the role of the President of the Republic and
I would give citizens the possibility to directly indicate a
majority and who will lead it, foreseeing that there cannot be
reversals within the same legislature" said Salvini, who is also
Minister of Infrastructure, during a meeting at the Festival of
Economics in Trento organised by the 24 Ore business news group
and Trentino Marketing on behalf of the Autonomous Province,
responding to a question on reforms being put forward by Premier
Giorgia Meloni.
Meloni has said she wants to give the Italian people the right
to directly elect either their premiers or their presidents, and
has said she is leaning towards the former option.
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