Italian Elections and Politics 2018: Yellow Tide

[Sestak]

My best guess, without knowing very much, what will take place would be:

1) Center-Right Lega-FN minority government with Salvini as PM where PD abstains (50%)
2) M5S-PD government (25%)
3) M5S-Lega government (15%)
4) New elections (5%)
5) Some sort of uber grand coalition behind a technicart PM (5%)

If PD deliberately allows Salvini as PM to stop M5S they deserve to collapse.

[Sestak]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-08/italy-s-league-is-said-to-reach-out-to-renzi-s-party-for-votes

Italy's League Is Said to Reach Out to Renzi's Party for Votes

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If the PD allows someone as morally repugnant as Salvini to become Premier, then they're killing their own party.

Yeah.

This is the equivalent of centrist Democrats supporting Jeff Sessions over Bernie Sanders because Sessions is more establishment.

[Sestak]

Can somebody explain to me how is it possible that Italian MPs just elected guy named Roberto Fico as president of Chamber of Deputies at the same time while guy with Italian surname became Prime Minster of Slovakia?

LMAO

[Sestak]

Go Di Maio!

Again, I can't believe I'm saying this.

[Sestak]

Di Maio a few moments ago: "Talks with League are over; still deep differences with Democrats. Any discussion with Lega ends here. Salvini has condemned himself to irrelevance. Government with the CentreRight is no longer viable. I ask the PD to come to the table, not immediately to sign the contract but to check if there are the conditions to put it on its feet. If talks with PD fail, only alternative is a new election."

C'mon PD, take the deal

[Sestak]

I hope PD voters see sense and jump ship for M5S. Stop Salvini!

[Sestak]

WELP

[Sestak]

Hooray, another anti-freedom of religion European government! As if they don't already have enough.

[Sestak]

Wait, the President can just veto Cabinet members? What??

[Sestak]

So let's say there are new elections and 5 Star and Legs increase their majority. How does that change anything if the President won't accept their cabinet? It sounds like unless Italians suddenly elect an establishment government, there will be another impasse.

If this is true, and it looks like it is, this is a complete failure of democracy.

[Sestak]

I hope Di Maio realizes that a deal with PD is M5S' last chance of being in a dominant position in government. And that PD realizes that such a deal is the only way they aren't destroyed in a second election.