20.11.2014 - 07:37 [ Ansa ]

House committee OKs Constitutional bill

Premier Matteo Renzi‘s Democratic Party (PD), the New Center Right (NCD) of Interior Minister Angelino Alfano, and Silvio Berlusconi‘s Forza Italia (FI) voted in favor, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S) and the opposition Left Ecology Freedom (SEL) voted against while the anti-immigrant Northern League abstained. The deadline for filing amendments to the text now going to the floor of the Lower House is November 24, sources said.