Premier Giorgia Meloni said Thursday
that she hopes her government's draft reform to introduce the
direction election of the prime minister will be in place before
Italy's next general election, scheduled to take place in 2027.
"I would like to get at the next elections with the premiership
reform approved and an electoral law tailored to it," she told a
news conference.
Under the current system in Italy, 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 President of the Republic to become
premier.
That figure is not necessarily one of the politicians given by
the parties as their premier candidate during the election
campaign.
Meloni says the proposed reform to let Italians choose their
premiers directly will lead to stronger and more stable
governments in a country which has long been dogged by unstable
revolving door administrations.
She has described the plan as the "mother of all reforms".
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