Aosta Valley Election, 25 May

[Bono]

This is an Italian region on the French border. Here, we'll see whether the rightward trend continues, if the Left can stop its bleed, or if will all be overshadowed by local issues.
The current parliamentary composition, out of 35 members, is the following(vote percentages in brackets):

Union Valdôtaine (UV), centrist (French minority) 18 (47,2%)
Stella Alpina (SA), (regionalist-) christian-dem. 4 (19,8% in coalition with FA)
Federazione Autonomista (FA), (regionalist-) centrist 3 (19,8% in coalition with SA)
Partito Democratico (PD), social-dem. 4 (14,4% 2003: DS + Forward Valley)
Popolo della Libertà (PDL), liberal-conserv. 3 (9,4% 2003: CDL)
Arcobaleno Vallée d'Aoste (ARC), green/socialist 3 (7,9%)

Also running this year is a new party called Vallée d'Aoste Vive (AV) - Renouveau Valdôtain (RV), a social-liberal French minority party.
The current government is formed by a regionalist coalition of UV, SA and FA.

[Hash]

Aosta Valley politics are quite different than the rest of Italy. The right always polls poorly, even this year.

IIRC, UV holds the Senate seat, and the lower house seat by ALD (which, IIRC, is AV and RV).

[SPQR]

I didn't even know there were elections in Valle D'Aosta...anyway it's very different from Italian politics,the frenchy party always wins...

[Hash]

Results here- http://www.aostasera.it/home/index.cfm

Another drop for the left (PD and radical lefties).

[SPQR]

The PD actually improved from the GE,and the PDL did worse.

[Bono]

The PD actually improved from the GE,and the PDL did worse.

The PD lost from the last regional election though, and the PDL gained.
Anyway, nice to see the extreme left fall out of another parliament.

[HardRCafé]

Polenta does a body good!