Italy Lower House Approves Meloni Electoral Reform Bill
The plan would replace first-past-the-post seats with a proportional system and give a bonus to blocs winning more than 42% of the vote.
- On Thursday, Italy's lower house approved a contested government plan to overhaul electoral laws, which opponents denounced as an attempt to help Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni retain power in the 2027 election.
- The ruling right-wing coalition, comprising Brothers, the League, and Forza Italia, proposed the reform to replace the current system, which includes first-past-the-post seats that analysts say tend to favor the opposition.
- Winners surpassing the 42% threshold receive a bonus of 70 seats in the 400-member lower house and 35 in the 200-member Senate, though lawmakers rejected adding preference votes on Tuesday.
- The rise of Futuro Nazionale, a far-right movement led by Roberto Vannacci and polling at just over 6%, has unsettled Meloni's camp and siphoned support from the coalition.
- YouTrend noted the outcome of the 2027 election depends not only on the law but crucially on where Vannacci's party positions itself, as the government hopes to secure Senate approval after the summer recess.
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The House of Representatives has approved the government's plan, and now the Senate has to approve the new electoral law.
The opposition denounces a denial of democracy after the adoption of an electoral reform that offers an additional number of deputies and senators to the coalition that has come in the lead, in order to guarantee a stable majority. The next legislative elections will take place in 2027.
The Chamber of Deputies approves the bill, which will now go to the Senate, after a process marked by divisions within the majority.
After a tough parliamentary debate, in which even the majority lost in some votes of the different amendments, the Italian Chamber of Deputies has approved, in...
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