The majority locks down the agreement on the reform which arrives in the Council of Ministers on Friday. If the directly elected president falls, the successor is chosen from the same coalition. Renzi’s yes. The oppositions against

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ROME – A tailor-made reform by the centre-right, which tries to change the Constitution by taking into account all the battles of Meloni and his allies: the direct election of the prime minister (in reality a variation on the theme compared to the presidentialism promised before the 2022 vote ) but also a troubled anti-reversal rule, the stop to technical governments and finally the no to new senators for life, who the governing coalition has not liked since the days when Giorgio Napolitano chose Mario Monti as the premise for Chigi’s rise to the post by Silvio Berlusconi.