Italian Elections and Politics 2022 - Our Time to Schlein

[omar04]

some people think that renzi and calenda are leftist, more leftist of the PD...
i know a young man call himself communist* and vote and it's member of the Calenda party

* it's clear that he is not know what he tell

He can't stomach voting for the ISP?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_and_Popular_Italy

[omar04]

How strong are the rural -> rightwards and urban -> leftwards trends? This seems to be a decent predictor looking at the maps for a moment.  From what I can tell Italy's population is well distributed although the north is on top in population and voter turn out.

[omar04]

How strong are the rural -> rightwards and urban -> leftwards trends? This seems to be a decent predictor looking at the maps for a moment.  From what I can tell Italy's population is well distributed although the north is on top in population and voter turn out.

That has been the very broad trend in Italy for the past decade or so (although "rural" is really a misnomer here - Italy has very few genuinely rural areas left), but these last results have been a bit messy in this regard, mostly because A/IV did shockingly well in the kind of large well-off cosmopolitan urban centers PD had been gaining ground in. And conversely, M5S doing so well across the poorest parts of the country shows that the right-wing vote isn't exactly working-class. At the end of the day, Italy continues to be very much its own Thing.

couldn't M5S be considered "left" economically although they're ideologically a bit untethered? They set up and are trying to keep the national GMI the Brothers Of Italy apparently want to abolish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27_income_(Italy)

Also: https://twitter.com/ClassicalSocdem/status/1575117278110154752

[omar04]

Italy's pandemic recovery plan must halt demographic "tsunami" in south - ISTAT

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italys-pandemic-recovery-plan-must-halt-demographic-tsunami-south-istat-2023-01-25/

[omar04]

Does anyone know what party if any the mayors of Castelfranci and Bugnara are affiliated with? They endorsed DeSantis a couple of days ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ron_DeSantis_2024_presidential_campaign_primary_endorsements#Current_3

[omar04]

both should center right
Bugnara mayor has a past in the Democrazia Cristiana (in the 80s)
Castelfranci mayor was FI county councilor in 2004-2008

Thank you, if I may ask where do you find this kind of information? I couldn't find anything searching myself.