The second round of the election will be held on June 25 in municipalities where no candidate wins more than 50 percent of the votes.
On Monday, the Italian parliament started discussing the electoral system overhaul bill after an agreement struck by the main political parties. The bill is based on proportional representation with an entry bar set at 5 percent. Both ruling and opposition parties expressed hope for the country’s electoral law being approved in early July.
Italy was due to hold elections in 2018, however, on December 6, 2016, Italy's then Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said that the country could hold snap parliamentary elections in February 2017, following the resignation of the country's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi in the wake of the government-proposed constitutional referendum. Renzi's resignation took effect on December 12, 2016.
