Italy’s Renzi Quits After Losing Reforms Referendum

Italian Premier Matteo Renzi announced he will resign Monday after suffering a stinging loss in a reforms referendum, triggering immediate calls from a populist party and other opposition forces for elections to be held soon.   “The `No's' have won in an extraordinary clear-cut way,” Renzi told reporters in Rome about an hour after polls had closed in Sunday's balloting. “I lost and the post that gets eliminated is mine,” Renzi said. “The government's experience is...

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