Italy’s PM Renzi cedes defeat, plans to resign after decisive ‘No’ vote in constitutional referendum

‘Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi says he takes full responsibility for the crashing defeat at the referendum he proposed, which would have reduced the powers of the Senate. Renzi intends to send in his resignation on Monday.
“The experience of my government ends here,” Renzi said in a televised news conference, adding that his defeat was “extraordinary clear.” “I have lost and I say it out loud,” he said.
“Tomorrow I will gather the Council of Ministers, and I will go to the Quirinal Palace to resign,” Renzi said, confirming his plans to tender his resignation to the country’s president, Sergio Mattarella.’
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