Govt to go distance, reforms will stop power games - Meloni

(see related) (ANSA) - ROME, OCT 3 - Premier Giorgia Meloni said Tuesday that her government will last the full parliamentary term and argued that the institutional reforms it plans to approve will end the "power games" that have affected Italian politics in the past.
    When talking about the government's commitment to bringing down national-health-system waiting lists, she said: "the advantage we have is the horizon of a full parliamentary term".
    The government intends to reform the nation's political system so that the head of government is directly elected by voters.
    Under the current system, parties engage in government-formation talks after a general election and then the coalition that forms a ruling majority in parliament agrees on a figure to propose to the head of State to become premier.
    That figure is not necessarily one of the politicians given by the parties as their premier candidate during the election campaign.
    "What we have in front of us is a year of reforms, with which we intend to change the institutional architecture (of Italy)," she said at the Festival of Regions event in Sicily.
    She added that this would allow citizens "to decide who they want to be governed by" and would prevent voters' will being overturned by "palace power games" and, at the same time, guarantee the "stability of governments" in Italy. (ANSA).