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“Enough with divisions!”, Elly Schlein, leader of Italy’s Democratic Party told the crowd as she took to the stage on Tuesday in central Rome. The protest was organised by opposition parties against Meloni’s ambitious new government reforms. What started as a one-off protest might however define a new political strategy against Meloni’s government. Meloni’s right-wing coalition has pushed through two key reforms that, if passed, represent an ambitious overhaul of the Italian constitution. One is the direct election of the Italian prime minister – an ambitious project that has only ever been te…