#Italy The flooding rains came to Tuscany and Florence. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
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🗓️ 4 November 2023
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#Italy The flooding rains came to Tuscany and Florence. Lorenzo Fiori, Ansaldo Foundation
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I on the world. I'm John Bachelor Twittily, Lorenzo Fiore of the Anseldo Foundation. |
| 0:10.0 | A major consideration for the Italian government into the future. |
| 0:15.7 | You will recall that there have been so many changes of Italian government since the Second |
| 0:20.2 | War that it's difficult to keep count? Well there's a better idea. |
| 0:24.8 | Lorenzo, I understand that Georgia Maloney and her party are advancing a change of |
| 0:30.7 | how the Prime Minister is chosen and what it will mean for the |
| 0:35.3 | stability of the Parliament. What is proposed and will it pass? Good evening to |
| 0:39.6 | you. Good evening, John and good evening to all the radio listeners. |
| 0:42.6 | Let me say that the number of governments |
| 0:45.1 | that we had in Italy after the Second World War |
| 0:48.4 | is in the order of 68. |
| 0:50.7 | So there is a clear need of implementing a system that can offer to the Italian nation a certain |
| 0:57.7 | stability in terms of duration of government. |
| 1:00.8 | So this reform that has been approved this afternoon by the Prime Minister Cabinet with an unanimous vote by all the parties of the coalition is proposing three major changes. The first one is that the Prime Minister is elected |
| 1:16.0 | or let's say is chosen by election by the people during the electoral votes. The second one is that the Prime Minister must be a parliamentarian. |
| 1:26.0 | While in the past, there were also the possibility of having the so-called technical government |
| 1:32.0 | led by somebody that who was not a parliamentarian but a man |
| 1:38.3 | chosen among the civil society and and the third point is very important is the premium for the |
| 1:46.8 | majority that win the election giving them the opportunity to have the 55% of the votes. |
| 1:55.6 | Clearly, this is a reform that needs to go |
| 1:59.0 | through Parliament approval, |
| 2:01.0 | where the coalition of Georgia Maloney has a large majority in the |
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