I never thought that these fascists would hollow out the democracy so quickly. Automatically 55% in parliament for the party with the most votes, regardless of the share on total votes That's a huge hit on democracy

That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. The parliament would effectively be useless when it is dependent on the prime minister, you could just elect a king and skip it altogether.

This is implementing First Past the Post with extra steps. It's a terrible idea.

There's a reason the Westminster system (UK, Canada, etc) is often referred to as an Elective Dictatorship

Italy has quite a long history of right wing governments being overturned and replaced with technical government or even "emergency governments" led by opposition leaders. She wants to put an end to this because she fears it for her (current and future) governments as well.

Governments lasting so little in Italy make it less reliable and makes it almost impossible to carry out any substantial (but much needed) reformation for a country that has been stuck in immobilism for decades.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Repeated attempts to produce a more robust system, the last in 2016, have always foundered amid myriad, competing visions and, given the steps needed, there is no guarantee it will become law this time.

The right-wing administration of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who took office last year, made ending the country's chronic political instability strengthening the bond between governments and voters a key policy plank.

Under the proposal, the prime minister would be elected for a period of five years and the coalition supporting the winning candidate will be given at least 55% of seats, to make sure it has a workable majority in both houses of parliament.

If approved, the plan would make it impossible for presidents to appoint outside technocrats to run governments, a power they have repeatedly used to end political stalemate.

Meloni told a news conference that the proposal would bring to an end the season of governments with no electoral backing that "implemented policies that citizens had not decided".

Meloni's predecessor Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank, led the last technocrat government after being called in by President Sergio Mattarella in 2021 to end a political crisis with COVID then battering Italy.

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