The Chamber of Deputies approved the reform by 217 votes to 152 with two abstentions on Thursday morning, in another secret ballot.
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The plan now looks likely to go ahead, following confirmation by a Senate vote expected in September.
Meloni has long championed a fundamental overhaul of the electoral system, arguing it would end Italy’s famous cycle of shifting coalitions and deliver more stable government ahead of the 2027 election. Critics say the changes, which include a "seat bonus" for the largest coalition and the direct election of the prime minister, would hand her a firmer grip on power.
Dozens of MPs from the coalition government on Tuesday voted in secret against a key amendment put forward by Meloni's Brothers of Italy (FdI), sinking it by just one vote at 188 to 187.
Meloni was reportedly furious and looking to her party's coalition partners, the League and Forza Italia, this week for answers after they had committed to backing the proposal, which concerned "preference" votes allowing voters to name individual candidates.
“We go on,” Meloni said on Wednesday, calling the defeat “just a parliamentary incident”. Her office had signalled that there would be no move towards early elections in October, Sky TG24 reported, after calls from the opposition for her to step down.
However, a split within the ruling coalition appeared to be widening. Meloni asked her party's MPs on Wednesday to vote for a rival preferences amendment put forward by the new far-right Futuro Nazionale (National Future), the party of Roberto Vannacci - which the League and Forza Italia rejected.
The move was described by FdI members as a message to their current allies, Sky TG24 reported, after previously signalling that they would not work with Vannacci's more extreme party.
League leader Matteo Salvini told reporters in Bari on Thursday that he had nothing to say about the electoral law, saying the reform was “further away than quantum physics”.
Asked about coalition infighting and a potential reshuffle, he said “I don’t read hypotheses and background stories.” There were no crises on the horizon, he insisted, and the pact binding the government parties remained solid.
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MPs also passed changes to the way Italian overseas votes are to be counted. The overseas constituency still elects eight deputies and four senators, but each region no longer holds a guaranteed seat. South America, which has more registered voters than the rest of the non-European world combined, could take at least three of the four non-European seats in the Chamber, leaving Italians elsewhere outside Europe with no representation, Il Post reported.
The text now rests with the Senate committee until the summer break, with a vote in the upper house expected in September.
Senate speaker Ignazio La Russa, from Meloni's FdI, told reporters on Wednesday that the preferences amendment could also be revived there - adding that Senate rules ""suit the subject better" as they reserve secret ballots for other kinds of vote.
“With an open vote you would see who really wants citizens to choose their representatives and who doesn’t,” he said.
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