Italy 1994!

[Axel Foley]

My father was born in the Mirafiori neighbourhood of Turin, where there was a big presence of FIAT auto-industry...in 1994 election Mirafiori was put into the "Turin 7" district with other working class neighbourhoods, and that was considered a safe seat for the left coalition...so, psychiatrist and later tv-personality Alessandro Meluzzi, candidate for the Berlusconi's Forza Italia&Northern League alliance, won with 35,59% of the votes, against 35,15% gained by Sergio Chiamparino, the candidate of the left-wing alliance and later mayor of the town representing the center-left coalition...funny thing is that in those times Chiamparino was considered ( sort of)an extremist left-wing, and now -as Piedmont Regional governor- he is considered a liberal-centrist elitist...

[Axel Foley]

For some reason (does anyone know?) Forza Italia were not on the ballot there, which explains that...

They were excluded by the checking commission because they collected the signatures needed under the law for presenting their Apulian list of candidates on irregular forms...more specifically, they presented some of those signatures on a National Alliance official form, cancelling NA logo and pen-writing "Forza Italia" in its place.