Italian Elections and Politics 2018: Yellow Tide

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Watch Italy missing the World Cup lead to an anti-establishment surge. Frankly, I'd be more willing to shares in M5S than I was yesterday...

No US, Italy or Netherlands in the World Cup. Madness.

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Ended up closest to Insieme. PaP and LeU tied for second.

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Just as a reminder:
LeU ran the most classic left-wing, Corbyn-like campaign (even stealing his motto and proposal on abolishing taxes on university) and got a whopping 3.3%.

So any analysis simply stating that "PD is not left anymore!1!1!!!1" might miss the point on what the Italian society is at the moment.

LeU did achieve their goal of getting Renzi to screw off forever, though.

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http://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2018/mar/06/italys-first-black-senator-elected-for-far-right-league-party-1783036.html

Italy's first black senator elected for far-right League party

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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.

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How did the LN get any votes at all from south of the Po river? Isn't their official position that southern Italians are awful?

It used to be.

But they basically dropped the “Nord” from their name for the campaign and focused on anti-immigration and hard euroskepticism and right-populism. They no longer really care about their made-up country.

EDIT: article about the switch: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-20/italy-s-northern-league-is-suddenly-in-love-with-the-south

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5 Stars already collapsing...