Posted on 03/05/2018 9:50:56 AM PST by Michael van der Galien
Italy has been hit by a historic political earthquake. Sunday's election results speak for themselves: the two populist parties (the Five Star Movement and Lega Nord) have won, while the establishment-mainstream parties have been all but wiped out.
The mostly leftist Five Star Movement (started by Beppe Grillo) took home more than 30 percent of the vote. Although progressive in most of its views, FSM is also eurosceptic, making its resounding victory a major problem for Brussels. The Five Star Movement's brother-of-another-mother, the right-wing Lega Nord (Northern League), also performed extremely well with around 17 percent of the vote, making it Italy's third party. Current governing party PD (Democrats) was barely able to fight off Lega by finishing second with a mere 19-20 percent of the vote.
And Berlusconi's Forza Italia? They had to settle for fewer votes than Lega Nord, probably ending up with 13-15 percent.
Together, Lega Nord and the Five Star Movement could -- theoretically -- govern the country. Chances of them doing so are rather slim, however. As such, it's likely that Italy will now have a hung parliament. As La Stampa splashed on its front page today: "Di Maio wins, Italy ungovernable." Luigi Di Maio is FSM's leader.
Be that as it may, Italy's populists are celebrating the results. Lega Nord's leader Matteo Salvini took to Twitter to thank voters...
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Really good. The left is trying desperately to explain it as confusion, disarray, etc.
People took a while to realize that a bloated bureaucracy a thousand miles away where you are simply a vassal state to the unelected bureaucrats is worse than a bloated bureaucracy a hundred miles away composed of people who live and eat in your country.
Give me $100 on the populist lefty selling out to Brussels once he’s been in office a little bit
From what I’ve seen, they’re all saying it’s Russia’s evil doing that this party/politician did so well.
Agree...although maybe the populists can remove the logjam
I’ve lived there. You have no idea how backwards the place is.
Just to demonstrate the leftist bent of Canada’s CBC, the journalist covering the Italian election called the fear of refugees “misplaced”. What? According to her? Based on what data?
Didn’t take a day. Di Maio’s first official statement was:
If eastern European countries continue to refuse to take in their share of migrants, the EU must cut off their funding.
Leftist won this election they had nearly double the vote of the conservative populist party.
No doubt conservative views are near impossible to hear thou broadcast or socal media in italy as well.
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