Originally Posted by mrabody

Actually I believe that Italy went to a split system in the late nineties where about 75% of the seats in their parliament are elected by FPTP. This explains why the last few governments have lasted longer than usual. I also understand that the Italian public is generally in favour of making it all FPTP. They are fed up with corrupt politicians and in the latest elections refused to vote en masse for the myriad small parties with the result that there are now only six parties represented in the Italian parliament.