Italy’s Meloni concedes referendum defeat, calling it ‘a lost opportunity’
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The prime minister admits defeat in the high-stakes vote on a justice reform package but vows to keep her seat.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has conceded defeat in a referendum on her justice reforms, while confirming she would not hand in her resignation.
“The Italians have decided. And we respect this decision,” she said in a statement on X on Monday, alongside a video, saying the result of the referendum was “a lost opportunity to modernise Italy”.
In the video, she stressed that “this does not change our commitment to continue, with seriousness and determination, to work for the good of the nation and to honour the mandate entrusted to us”.
Meloni’s hard-right government wanted to change Italy’s constitution to separate the roles of judges and prosecutors and reform their oversight body.
She claimed the plan is essential to guarantee impartiality and improve the functioning of Italy’s creaking justice system.
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