Italian Elections and Politics 2022 - Our Time to Schlein

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Yesterday was the regional election in Sardignia
For now (1608/1840):

right: 52 %
left: 30 %
MI5: 9 %

So a new landslide for Salvini & co, after the 02/10 Abruzzes election (right: 49 left 30 MI5 19) and a massive rout for MI5.

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🇮🇹#Italy, #Basilicata regional election exit #poll :

#Bardi-Center Right Coalition : 42-44 %
#Trerotola-Center Left Coalition : 36-38 %
#Mattia-#M5S : 16-18 %

#Affaritalianiit, #ElezioniBasilicata #Basilicata
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Lega thankfully finished just below the PCI's high point in 1976 (34.33% vs 34.37%). Still absolutely, bone-chillingly, existentially terrifying result.

We can only hope that this will be like PD in 2014. This is the high point, and now it's all downhill.

Otherwise, if these results hold, Italy could truly turn into the next Hungary.

good one. This election is amazing for the right. Vox populi, vox dei.

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League Candidate at 56.5% to 60.5% in Umbria Vote: Exit Polls

wow

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The Italian right seems to overperform the polls in this case? This seemed to be a tight race according to the polls...

the last polls was in right favor  but not so much. In the last (Eu and regionals) elections, I observed that the italian polls tended to underestimated the right.

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Lega: 38,5%
FDI: 11,0%
Forza Italia: 5,8%
Civiche Tesei: 6,7%
PD: 19,0%
M5S: 8,6%
Civica Bianconi: 2,4%
Sinistra: 1,4%
Verdi: 1,4%

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Whatever lingering doubts there were remaining about the Governments migration policy, today the Deal between Italy and the Libyan Coast Guard was extended for another three Years, despite the pleas of Human Rights Organisations and rescuers to stop it.
The number of people trying to come and the number drowning has reduced dramatically since the deal was signed, but its a deal with the devil. The Libyan Coast Guard are pretty terrible people, criminals and militia members among them, and routinely accused of doing horrible abuses (UN report) to migrants. They have also shot at rescue ships.

Typical Europe. Preach Human Rights and Democracy, but pay Libya/Morocco/Turkey to do the dirty work where there are no pesky independent courts for people to turn to and no free press to cover it.
Literally way worse than Trump, but claim the moral high ground as the bastion of the enlightened free world or something.

So migrants should stay at home.

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What hasn't been mentioned is the constitutional referendum on the reduction of members of the House of deputies (from 630 to 400) and the Senate (from 315 to 200).

This is one of the oldest battles of the M5S - consistently with their claim that politicians are crooks who only steal public money from the people.
M5S and Lega pushed it through quite quickly during their year in government, but it was M5S and PD that eventually pushed it through the finish line, shortly after the start of the Conte II government (almost all of the MPs voted in favour, it must be noted).
PD voted against it 3 times, but then had to accept it as a condition for forming a government with M5S. In exchange, there should have been a new electoral law (proportional), and changes to the rules of both the House and the Senate (as it is, there would be lots of problems in them functioning correctly).
Neither has happened, but nonetheless Zingaretti has decided that the official position of PD should be in favour of the reform, and he got it ratified on monday. This is widely seen as a move to push a strategic alliance with M5S, and many PD members are quite pissed, since PD's position has never been that of reducing MPs without reforming other parts of the Constitution.

Polls were showing a landslide in favour of the reform (90-10 or so), but in the last few weeks it's getting tighter (70-30), as more and more prominent figures (including former PM Prodi and the young movement of the Sardines) are declaring their opposition to it.

I think that some regionals polls have shown the no winning...