Premiership dangerous, against the Constitution - Schlein

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 4 - Centre-left Democratic Party (PD) leader Elly Schlein on Saturday reiterated her party's position that a government bill paving the way for the direct election of the premier by the Italian people is "dangerous" and said that the PD would use every available dialectical tool to oppose it in parliament.
    The constitutional reform bill "weakens parliament and the prerogatives of the President of the Republic", said Schlein, describing it as "a distortion of the Constitution and the parliamentary Republic".
    "We will use every available dialectical tool in parliament to oppose a project that we consider to be dangerous," she continued.
    Schlein said she would discuss the issue with the other opposition parties.
    The government approved the planned Constitutional reform on Friday and Premier Giorgia Meloni afterwards described it in a press conference as the "mother of all reforms".
    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 President of the Republic to become premier.
    That figure is not necessarily one of the politicians given by the parties as their premier candidate during the election campaign. (ANSA).