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Politics · ParliamentPress ✓ 6 outlets · vote outcome attributed to the Chamber via ANSA

The new electoral law is law. 227 yes votes in the secret ballot; the opposition: “A swindle”

Proportional representation with a majority bonus, almost no single-member constituencies, closed lists. Meloni: “United centre-right, keep going.” The opposition is preparing appeals and looking to the Constitutional Court.

On Thursday the Chamber of Deputies gave final approval to the electoral law reform with 227 votes in favor, in a final vote by secret ballot, ANSA and Il Post report. It is the last reading: the text had already passed the Senate, and on Monday the government had locked in the first three articles with a confidence vote. On Tuesday the first confidence vote had drawn 226 yes votes: in the secrecy of the ballot box the majority lost no votes, and in fact gained one. The process began in July with the first reading in the Chamber, 217 yes and 152 no according to AGI; on October 1 the opposition’s preliminary motions on constitutionality had been rejected with 229 votes. In the chamber the opposition held up placards reading “swindle law”; la Repubblica describes a packed chamber, in which it speaks of “lookouts” from Brothers of Italy and “tricks on the voting console.”

The system, Open explains, has a proportional base, abolishes almost all single-member constituencies and awards a majority bonus to whoever exceeds 42% of the vote in both houses. Closed lists remain; during the review, the vote of voters living away from home was added. ANSA published an explainer, from the bonus to preference votes, and RaiNews a guide on “how we will vote.” According to Il Sole 24 Ore, the obligation to name a prime ministerial candidate forces the centre-left to choose its own: Schlein and Conte are heading toward primaries, and Conte has already proposed a table on the program right after the Democratic Party assembly. For la Repubblica it is the law “of paradoxes”: fewer women elected, few preference votes, uncertain stability.

Giorgia Meloni claims the coalition’s cohesion: it is “the answer with facts to those who hoped for a divided centre-right,” she said, and “now Italians will be able to choose everything, even their members of parliament.” The opposition announces appeals, aiming to get a ruling from the Constitutional Court before the vote, ANSA reports. The date of the election remains open: Undersecretary Giovanbattista Fazzolari has floated a vote in June, but according to Antonio Tajani, Forza Italia wants to vote at the end of the legislature. A Youtrend poll cited by ANSA estimates that under the “Stabilicum” the centre-right would win only by allying with Vannacci.

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227yes votes in the final secret vote in the Chamber (ANSA)
42%the threshold for winning the majority bonus in both houses (Open)
226yes votes in Tuesday’s first confidence vote, one fewer than in the final vote
Economy · IndustryPress ✓ 3 outlets · announcements by Acciaierie d’Italia and Palazzo Chigi

Former Ilva: Taranto’s hot area shuts down from Friday. Genoa and Novi Ligure also close from November 15

Acciaierie d’Italia has announced the shutdown of Taranto’s hot area from Friday and the start of cassa integrazione procedures, ANSA reports. The company also announced the temporary stoppage of the Genoa and Novi Ligure plants from November 15; the mayors call it an “unsustainable lockout,” writes la Repubblica. Alfredo Mantovano, Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, announced a decree-law on protections for the workers of the former Ilva for the next Council of Ministers. The shutdown comes after the Milan Court of Appeal on Monday rejected the last request for a stay; the Court of Cassation is expected on October 20.

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Word of the day
Cassa integrazioneLabor

A scheme through which Inps pays part of the wages of workers at a company that reduces or suspends activity, without laying them off. At the former Ilva it starts with the shutdown of the blast furnaces.

Economy · MarketsPress ✓ 3 outlets · closing figures attributed to ANSA

Oil above $105, Milan loses another 1.35%. The spread falls to 111 points

Brent jumped about 5% above $105 a barrel, ANSA reports, and gas rose to €79.5 per megawatt-hour. Piazza Affari closed at −1.35%, Europe’s worst performer, with banks and tech stocks down, according to ANSA and RaiNews; Frankfurt lost 1.2%. The FTSE MIB fell to 49,298 points.

On government bonds the day went better: the spread between BTPs and Bunds closed lower at 111 points, with the 10-year yield at 4.6% (ANSA). At the Eurogroup, Christine Lagarde tied the rise in yields to global factors. Brussels approved the safeguard clause requested by Italy for defense and energy, ANSA and Il Post report; Commissioner Dombrovskis warns, however, that new forms of flexibility cannot always be introduced.

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Economy · BanksPress ✓ 5 outlets

MPS: Caltagirone and Crédit Agricole reject the Lovaglio plan. Double blow ahead of the shareholders’ meeting

The Caltagirone group, MPS’s second-largest shareholder, will vote against every item of the extraordinary part of the meeting, that is, against the plan by chief executive Luigi Lovaglio to prevent Intesa Sanpaolo from buying the bank, Il Post, la Repubblica and ANSA report. Crédit Agricole has also said no, write Il Sole 24 Ore and Borsa Corriere.

On the other side, Intesa gains the backing of Delfin and the Benettons: Azzone, a senior figure at Intesa Sanpaolo, tells Il Sole 24 Ore that the bank is ready to work with them. On Wednesday la Repubblica had written that Edizione, the Benettons’ holding company, will tender its shares to the offer. The contest will now be decided at the meeting.

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Culture · Nobel PrizesPress ✓ 5 outlets

Nobel Prize in Literature goes to Canadian poet Anne Carson

The Swedish Academy has awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature to Anne Carson, a Canadian poet, essayist and translator, Il Post, ANSA, RaiNews, la Repubblica and Il Sole 24 Ore report. She received the news while in Iceland “listening to the wind,” ANSA reports, and announced that she will give the prize money to charity.

A classicist by training, Carson rereads Greek myth and Sappho in contemporary poetry: la Repubblica writes that she has made classical myth a “mirror of the present.”

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Unverified — what we could not confirm

“The vote will be in June.” Undersecretary Fazzolari floated it, but Tajani says Forza Italia wants to vote at the end of the legislature (ANSA). No decision.
“The United States will strike Iran before the midterm vote.” It is one reading of Axios’s report on orders to Centcom. Trump denies it (ANSA, RaiNews, Il Sole 24 Ore).
“There is a second case of plague in Russia.” The Russian health agency calls these rumors false (ANSA); the WHO asks for more data (Il Post, Il Sole 24 Ore). No independent confirmation.
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INSIDEThe new electoral law is law. 227 yes votes in the secret ballot; the opposition: “A swindle”Politics · ParliamentFormer Ilva: Taranto’s hot area shuts down from Friday. Genoa and Novi Ligure also close from November 15Economy · IndustryOil above $105, Milan loses another 1.35%. The spread falls to 111 pointsEconomy · MarketsMPS: Caltagirone and Crédit Agricole reject the Lovaglio plan. Double blow ahead of the shareholders’ meetingEconomy · BanksNobel Prize in Literature goes to Canadian poet Anne CarsonCulture · Nobel Prizes