Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, during an address to the nation at the Chigi Palace, the seat of the Italian government, resigned after the results of the referendum were announced, reports the BBC.
In a speech after midnight, Renci said that he takes full responsibility for the negative result of the referendum on constitutional reforms.
"I lost, not you. I could not lead you to victory. I take responsibility for the outcome, the results are clear," said Renci during a speech that lasted about ten minutes and added:
"On Monday afternoon, I will convene the government and after that I will submit my resignation to the head of state," said Renci.
According to the first exit polls at the referendum, between 54 and 58 percent of voters voted against constitutional changes, and between 42 and 46 percent of voters voted for reforms. Renzi made the mistake of personalizing the referendum by saying that he would resign if the constitutional reforms were not passed.
The main information is that, according to data at 19 p.m., more than 57 percent of registered voters responded to the polls, and voting was done until 23 p.m. All opposition parties called on voters to vote against the reforms, but former leaders of Renzi's Democratic Party, such as Massimo D'Alema and Pierluigi Bersani, called to vote against the reforms just to topple the current 63rd government in the 70 years of the Italian republic.
It was the constitutional reforms that were supposed to help create stronger governments. The reforms abolished the parity bicameral system, where both the Senate and the House of Representatives had to pass an identical law. All parties were in favor of abolishing the Senate, but they called for a vote against only to topple Rencio.
Renci will resign as head of the Democratic Party.
The leader of the Northern League, Matteo Salvini, has already requested the resignation of Rencio based on projections.
If the reforms are not really passed, the old Constitution will remain, and that means both chambers, a more complicated system and, probably, constant changes of government. This could also affect foreign investments in Italy, because if the system is unstable, no one has the will to invest in the economy of such a country. Will it be possible to call new elections immediately? Probably not, because a new election law will need to be prepared.
Therefore, Italy will have a non-partisan government, the 64th in the republic's 2017-year history, which should adopt a new electoral law that could go to the polls in the spring of 5. In those elections, the 5-Star Movement (MXNUMXs) of comedian Bepe Grillo could win. , and then everything will be questionable, from Italy staying in the euro zone and even in the EU, to who could be prime minister and how he would act.
According to what she has done so far, and she has been mayor of Rome for six months, M5s member Virginia Raggi Italy will fall into quicksand. Until now, Radja has not even managed to assemble the entire city government, let alone make a decision. But Italy needs to adopt the budget for next year as well. Will it be implemented by the current government or another? There are many unanswered questions. Italy, which has accustomed us to various experiments in politics, is entering a phase from which the question is how it will get out.
Renci was prime minister for exactly one thousand days, and the president of the republic, Sergio Mattarella, will decide when and how to dissolve the parliament and when to call new elections. New elections will probably be called in the spring of 2017, but what will happen until then?
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