The BBC reports that Italy’s lower house passed a new law to cut the number of representatives in both chambers to save cost.
The law, passed on Tuesday, will see the number of parliamentarians in the lower house reduced from six hundred and thirty to four hundred while senators will be reduced from three hundred and fifteen to two hundred.
The cut is expected to save Italy about eighty two million euros every year.
The main party in Italy’s governing coalition, Five Star Movement which had promised the cut, was quoted as saying the measure will streamline parliament and save an estimated one billion euros.
The initiative by the Italian parliament comes amid clamour for Nigeria’s federal lawmakers to make some adjustments in their numbers or in their pay, to reduce the cost of governance.
