The Italian Senate has approved a controversial constitutional reform put forward by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government. A total of 109 members voted in favour of the reform in the smaller of the two chambers of parliament in Rome on Tuesday, with 77 against. The reform still faces several more hurdles before it can become law. The ruling parties celebrated after the vote, while the opposition protested and symbolically held up copies of the constitution. The constitutional reform stipulates that in future the prime minister would be directly elected for five years and the coalition su…