Italy's cabinet proposed a ban on technocrat-led governments as part of a constitutional reform to directly elect the head of government, the prime minister said on Friday calling the plan "the mother of all reforms".
Repeated attempts to produce a more robust system, the last in 2016, have always foundered amid myriad, competing visions and, given the steps needed, there is no guarantee it will become law this time.
The right-wing administration of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who took office last year, made ending the country’s chronic political instability strengthening the bond between governments and voters a key policy plank.
Under the proposal, the prime minister would be elected for a period of five years and the coalition supporting the winning candidate will be given at least 55% of seats, to make sure it has a workable majority in both houses of parliament.
If approved, the plan would make it impossible for presidents to appoint outside technocrats to run governments, a power they have repeatedly used to end political stalemate.
Meloni told a news conference that the proposal would bring to an end the season of governments with no electoral backing that “implemented policies that citizens had not decided”.
Meloni’s predecessor Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank, led the last technocrat government after being called in by President Sergio Mattarella in 2021 to end a political crisis with COVID then battering Italy.
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Repeated attempts to produce a more robust system, the last in 2016, have always foundered amid myriad, competing visions and, given the steps needed, there is no guarantee it will become law this time.
The right-wing administration of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who took office last year, made ending the country’s chronic political instability strengthening the bond between governments and voters a key policy plank.
Under the proposal, the prime minister would be elected for a period of five years and the coalition supporting the winning candidate will be given at least 55% of seats, to make sure it has a workable majority in both houses of parliament.
If approved, the plan would make it impossible for presidents to appoint outside technocrats to run governments, a power they have repeatedly used to end political stalemate.
Meloni told a news conference that the proposal would bring to an end the season of governments with no electoral backing that “implemented policies that citizens had not decided”.
Meloni’s predecessor Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank, led the last technocrat government after being called in by President Sergio Mattarella in 2021 to end a political crisis with COVID then battering Italy.
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