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Premier Giorgia Meloni said Tuesday
that her government will last the full parliamentary term and
argued that the institutional reforms it plans to approve will
end the "power games" that have affected Italian politics in the
past.
When talking about the government's commitment to bringing down
national-health-system waiting lists, she said: "the advantage
we have is the horizon of a full parliamentary term".
The government intends to reform the nation's political system
so that the head of government is directly elected by voters.
Under the current system, parties engage in government-formation
talks after a general election and then the coalition that forms
a ruling majority in parliament agrees on a figure to propose to
the head of State to become premier.
That figure is not necessarily one of the politicians given by
the parties as their premier candidate during the election
campaign.
"What we have in front of us is a year of reforms, with which we
intend to change the institutional architecture (of Italy)," she
said at the Festival of Regions event in Sicily.
She added that this would allow citizens "to decide who they
want to be governed by" and would prevent voters' will being
overturned by "palace power games" and, at the same time,
guarantee the "stability of governments" in Italy.
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