
The Chamber of Deputies in Rome has approved the new electoral law, which is intended to ensure the governing coalition a majority bonus if it wins elections.
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The reform is intended to create more stable government conditions through a majority bonus for election winners from 42 percent. Critics see this as a deliberate attempt to gain advantages for the incumbent coalition.
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni had made the vote a fateful decision - now it has turned out in her favor: Meloni's plans for a controversial new electoral law have cleared the last parliamentary hurdle.
The Chamber of Deputies in Rome, in which her coalition of three right-wing and conservative parties has a majority, approved the new electoral law. 227 MPs voted in favor, 164 against. The Senate – the second chamber of Parliament – had already approved the project in mid-September.
In the previous days, Meloni's government had already passed three votes of confidence with a clear majority. The decisive final vote was now eagerly awaited. The right-wing politician had made the votes on this in the Chamber of Deputies a test for her government and explained that failure would have consequences.
With the reform, Meloni wants to ensure that the winner of a parliamentary election receives a majority bonus if he can get 42 percent of the vote. A new coalition would then get 70 additional seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 35 additional seats in the Senate. A narrow election victory could turn into a comfortable majority. The opposition criticizes the project as a targeted acquisition of advantages for Meloni's coalition.
The reason for the reform is that with a more stable majority there should no longer be as frequent changes of government. The electoral law is called "Stabilicum" or by some also "Melonellum" because - according to criticism - it is tailored to the head of government's retention of power.

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