FILE PHOTO: Italy's former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi speaks at the Democratic Party (PD) headquarters in Rome, Italy, April 30, 2017. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo
ROME (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Tuesday that Italy's largest parties agree on the need for a proportional representation electoral system and that a law to adapt it should be enacted in the first week of July.
Renzi's confirmation of the position of the ruling centre-left Democratic Party (PD), of which he is head, raised the chances of an early national election before one is due to be held in May, political commentators said.
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