Italy: Meloni fails in parliamentary vote

The opposition should not jump the gun, warns the Süddeutsche Zeitung’s Rome correspondent, Elisa Britzelmeier:

“[Partito Democratico and Cinque Stelle] are already calling for Meloni’s resignation. But they would be in no position to fight an election campaign. The two of them still haven’t been able to agree on a candidate to run against Meloni. … Meloni’s Fratelli d’Italia party, however, is still number one in the polls. … And for now, Meloni has only failed at an intermediary stage. And that does not impact the core of the reform that the opposition is rightly describing as dangerous: the new voting law would give the strongest party in a coalition a huge majority bonus. And that would favour Meloni”

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