China News Service, September 22. According to Euronet, the European Union News Agency reported that on September 21, local time, the two-day referendum on the reduction of parliament members and the voting in local elections officially ended.
The vote count showed that the referendum was passed with a support rate of nearly 70%.
In the local elections, the two major political parties, the center-left and the center-right, formed a situation of "equally dividing the world."
According to the votes counted by the Election Service Center of the Italian Ministry of the Interior, Italy’s referendum on the reduction of parliament members to amend the Constitution was passed with 69.64% approval rate. After that, the Senate and the House of Representatives will formally amend the relevant texts of the Constitution to reduce the current 945 seats in the Senate and House of Representatives. Reduced to 600 seats.
The House of Representatives will be reduced from 630 seats to 400 seats, and the Senate will be reduced from 315 seats to 200 seats.
In the local elections, Giovanni Totti, President of Liguria, Vincenzo de Luca, President of Campania, and Michel Emiliano, President of Puglia, successfully won Re-elected.
The center-right candidate of Tuscany, Susana Secaldi, who was placed high hopes by the center-right party alliance, lost 4.3 percentage points to the center-left candidate Eugenio Giani; the president of the Marche Region Right-wing candidate Francesco Quaquari is in the bag.
After the election service center of the Italian Ministry of the Interior announced the results of the vote count, Luigi Di Maio, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the ruling party Five Star Movement, was very satisfied with the results of the vote, praising it as a historic result and also a center-left ruling party. A major victory for the alliance.
Nicola Zingaretti, chairman of the ruling Democratic Party, pointed out that the voting results confirmed the strength of the Democratic Party for reform. Now the season of reform has begun, the Democratic Party will work with its ruling allies to promote reform and social progress and development.
The Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Policy Teresa Bellanova of the Vigor Party of Italy said that reducing the results of the referendum among members of Congress will not completely solve any political issues facing Italy.
(Boyuan)