Italy's Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni arrives at a European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium October 20, 2017. REUTERS/Dario Pignatelli
ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni's government on Tuesday called a series of confidence votes to pass a new electoral law as the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, which is likely to be hurt by the new legislation, pledged to protest on the streets.
The government is resorting to the confidence votes to avoid secret voting in the Senate, where it has a narrow majority and at least four members of the ruling Democratic Party have said they will not cast a ballot.
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