Examples include large medical bills, the loss of financial aid or an unexpected change in the financial condition of their source of support.
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Mario Segni, who oversaw two successful referendums paving the way to partial electoral reform in the early 1990s, blamed Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the main opposition on the right, for being too tepid in supportofchange.
Abolishing the upper house requires a constitutional change with the supportof two-thirds of the lower house, as well as a majority in the upper house prepared to vote the chamber out of existence.