Italy will reduce its seats in Parliament to save 100 million euros a year | Chronic

The Italian Parliament has legalized the project of the ruling government, the Five Star Movement, to reduce from 630 to 400 the number of deputies and from 315 to 200 the number of senators, thanks to which it intends to save about 100 million euros. per year.

The Chamber of Deputies approved, with 553 votes in favor and 14 against, one of the projects of the five-star emblem, which garnered support from other groups that make up the executive power of the coalition, such as the Democratic Party and the new center-left force. , Live in Italy.

Opposition forces, such as the League of Matteo Salvini they approved the initiative while the left group + Europe opposed it. With the new law, the representation of MPs will increase from one in 96 006 inhabitants to one in 151 210 inhabitants.

In the Senate, meanwhile, there will be one legislator every 302,420 inhabitants, instead of one out of 188,424 inhabitants as before.

According to the calculations of Five Stars, the new law will save about 100 million euros per year between the two Houses.

Andrea Colletti, one of the five-star disciples, asked that the law seeks "savings, efficiency and representativeness" without having raised any other options, such as "rethinking bicameralism" prevailing in the country.

The new group of the former prime minister Matteo RenziItalia Viva voted in favor of the law, but said his country would promote a referendum to submit the law to the Italians, according to its bloc leader Roberto Giachetti

Right, the Brothers of Italy also emphasized the approval of the law "a decrease in the distance between citizens and palaces", according to his boss Giorgia Meloni. The right-wing force has also called for progress to be made now "the direct vote of the president and the abolition of senators for life"currently five.

The approved standard came into force three years later. The then Prime Minister, Matteo Renzi, had to resign from office after losing the referendum in which he proposed the abolition of the Senate in order to reduce the costs of politics and speed up the Italian parliamentary system .