Italy Passes New Electoral Law in Win for Premier Gentiloni
- Way cleared for general elections by May of next year
- Five Star Movement took to streets to oppose change in law
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Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni managed to pass a controversial electoral law that sets the stage for general elections in the first half of 2018.
Gentiloni’s center-left government won a vote in the Senate on Thursday after a series of confidence ballots used by the government to push through the change. The bill, popularly known as Rosatellum, after Ettore Rosato, the parliamentary leader of Italy’s ruling Democratic Party, passed with 214 votes in favor and 61 against.