Italian law to give election winners bonus seats: Why that’s controversial
- Italy’s parliament is voting on Thursday on a new electoral law that would make it easier for election winners to form a majority government.
- The law, proposed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, would award extra seats to any party or coalition that obtains more than 42 percent of seats in both parliamentary chambers, ensuring it holds a majority.
- Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Italy’s Meloni slams protesters following clashes in Bolognalist 2 of 3Abderrahim Fakir’s death has reignited Italy’s police accountability debatelist 3 of 3‘She doesn’t give up that easily’: France’s Le Pen
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- Italy’s parliament is voting on Thursday on a new electoral law that would make it easier for election winners to form a majority government.
- The law, proposed by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, would award extra seats to any party or coalition that obtains more than 42 percent of seats in both parliamentary chambers, ensuring it holds a majority.
- Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Italy’s Meloni slams protesters following clashes in Bolognalist 2 of 3Abderrahim Fakir’s death has reignited Italy’s police accountability debatelist 3 of 3‘She doesn’t give up that easily’: France’s Le Pen
Sources: Al Jazeera