“Advice to Meloni on the referendum from an expert on the subject. If Giorgia Meloni loses the constitutional referendum she will have to go home. Anyway”. IV leader and former prime minister Matteo Renzi writes this on X.
“You seem confused. Yesterday you said: make it or break it. Today you say: if I lose I won’t resign, who cares. It’s not like that, dear President”, remarks Renzi.
“Referendums on projects proposed by the Government still lead to the resignation of the prime minister, all over the world. Whether the prime minister wants it or not”, observes Renzi, who adds: “Even David Cameron in 2016 said that he would not resign in the event of defeated but was forced to leave Downing Street as soon as the Brexit data were official. My advice to Meloni is simple: instead of worrying about the defeat, worry about changing the Casellati reform.
If Meloni “insists on this reform that doesn’t stand up and goes to the referendum, he will lose it. And if he loses it – Renzi continues – he goes home. He can go home like Renzi did or he can go home like Cameron did But he will go home anyway. Because when a government loses a referendum, it becomes a political distrust of the country in the government. And politically speaking, it is not enough to have the trust of Parliament.” Echoing Meloni’s words, the leader of Italia Viva concludes: “Either it’s okay or it’s broken? It’s broken, Giorgia, it’s broken.”
