A great big reform package
Matteo Renzi faces a tough battle to fix Italian governance
AT SIX o’clock on a Sunday evening, Ettore Rosato is addressing an audience of fewer than 100 people in Seregno, a picturesque commuter town north of Milan. His brief: to persuade them to back the government’s constitutional reform in a referendum eight weeks hence. Earlier that day Mr Rosato, who leads the governing Democratic Party (PD) in the Chamber of Deputies, was in Switzerland canvassing expatriate voters; the day before, in Sardinia. He will not stop zigzagging through Italy until the vote is held on December 4th.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline “A great big reform package”
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