Italian vote with current election law would yield no winner - polls


  • World
  • Friday, 27 Jan 2017

FILE PHOTO: An Italian policeman stands guard in front of a polling station in a school during Italy's general election in Rome, Italy April 9, 2006. REUTERS/Tony Gentile/File Photo

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's three biggest parties are pushing for a national election this year, nine months ahead of schedule, but simulations published on Friday show no clear winner would emerge if the current voting system is used.

On Wednesday the Constitutional Court scrapped part of the lower house election law and left in its place a proportional system similar to the one that gave Italy 50 governments in 50 years after World War Two.

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