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  • What is going on in Italy with the new Electoral law?

    09/16/2005 5:21:19 AM PDT · by an italian · 2 replies · 132+ views
    16th september 2005 | an italian
    Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Italian Deputy Prime Minister Gianfranco Fini threatened to block a proposed electoral law backed by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, underscoring divisions within the ruling coalition less than a year before national elections. Fini made the threat after the Union of Christian Democrats said they would seek to amend the draft legislation announced two days ago to eliminate a 4 percent threshold for parties to be given seats in parliament. Fini backs the voting limit to exclude marginal parties from gaining seats in legislature. ``What is essential is that the electoral law safeguard the bipolar system,''...