Posted on 12/04/2016 2:37:41 PM PST by goldstategop
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has suffered a heavy defeat in a referendum over his plan to reform the constitution, exit polls suggest.
An exit poll on state broadcaster RAI suggests 42-46% voted to back reform, compared with 54-58% voting No.
Two other polls gave the No vote a similar lead of at least 10 points.
Mr Renzi, who has said he would resign if he lost the vote, is due to make a statement at midnight (23:00 GMT) from his official residence in Rome.
The referendum was regarded as a barometer of anti-establishment sentiment in Europe.
The vote asked about plans to streamline parliament but it was widely seen as a chance to register discontent with the prime minister.
Populist parties supported a No vote.
The opposition Northern League leader has called for Mr Renzi's resignation.
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Exit polls project it will lose by 10 points. No vote is 54%-58%.
Expect Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to submit his resignation soon.
Mandate.
I take it this is a victory for the populists?
Go Trump!
heh heh
Yup. Big win for Italian populists.
Note to GOP: leave the 17th amendment alone. It is just fine along with the electoral college
MAMMA MIA !!!!!!!!!!
110 percent......
“Expect Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi to submit his resignation soon. “
He won’t. He’s a lying commie.
US
UK
Italy
Austria couldn’t get it done
France next
And maybe enough to sweep Marine Le Pen into office in France? Change in Austria?
Italians voted “no” to having the government getting things done faster.
And they voted no confidence in Renzi.
Awesome!
What does this really mean? I work with a whacked leftist with duel citezenship, Italy & US? Thinks it’s his refuge...yes, delusional.
All I read was that he was going to eliminate a layer of government and cut the senate to 100 positions. What’s the downside of this guy?
We are 3 for 4, folks.
Austria is too close to the epicenter of EU Europe, which is eventually going to consist of Germany, the Low Countries, Austria, Denmark, and (maybe) Scandinavia--a kind of fourth reich, but not at all like the third one.
He was going to turn the Senate into a consultative assembly similar to the UK House Of Lords.
Critics saw it as eliminating a check on the government.
Well, that’s gone now.
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