Life Senators KOd in 1st article of premier reform

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 28 - The Senate on Tuesday approved Article 1 of a bill on directly electing the Italian premier, repealing the President of the Republic's power to appoint senators for life.
    The current life senators remain in office.
    Premier Giorgia Meloni has labelled the measure to let the Italian people directly elect their premiers as "the mother of all reforms".
    It is expected to go to a referendum having failed to muster the two thirds majority in both houses required for a Constitutional reform.
    Meloni recently said she was staking her political future on the reform, only to do a U-turn and say a defeat in the referendum would not hurt her or her government. (ANSA).