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Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi heads into a career-defining constitutional referendum this weekend hoping a last-minute turnaround in voter sentiment will help him hold on to power.
The latest polls point to a defeat for the centre-left leader's proposals to streamline parliament - an outcome that would cast him as the next victim of the populism that has buffeted global politics in 2016.
After Britain's vote to leave the EU and Donald Trump's presidential triumph in the United States, Italy's establishment is viewed as next in line for a slap from the fed-up and the forgotten. It is a narrative that has played strongly internationally but less so in Italy, where the merits of the proposed reform itself have dominated discussion.
At stake on Sunday is whether to slash the size and powers of the second-chamber Senate and centralize some powers currently held at local or regional level.
Will Renzi be next casualty of 2016's populist wave? - The Local
(Caution Bolsheviks: May not be a Legit news source)
The latest polls point to a defeat for the centre-left leader's proposals to streamline parliament - an outcome that would cast him as the next victim of the populism that has buffeted global politics in 2016.
After Britain's vote to leave the EU and Donald Trump's presidential triumph in the United States, Italy's establishment is viewed as next in line for a slap from the fed-up and the forgotten. It is a narrative that has played strongly internationally but less so in Italy, where the merits of the proposed reform itself have dominated discussion.
At stake on Sunday is whether to slash the size and powers of the second-chamber Senate and centralize some powers currently held at local or regional level.
Will Renzi be next casualty of 2016's populist wave? - The Local
(Caution Bolsheviks: May not be a Legit news source)
