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Italy Election Aftermath: Renzi Quits, Center-Left ‘Disappears’
Breitbart ^ | March 6, 2018 | Thomas D. Williams

Posted on 03/06/2018 8:28:58 AM PST by C19fan

With final results in from Sunday’s national elections in Italy, the depth of the defeat for the left can be fully appreciated with the resignation of the leader of the Democratic Party (PD) and the severely diminished presence of the center-left coalition in Parliament. According to the Italian media, elections left the PD “prostrate” while the center-left coalition itself has “disappeared” from the electoral map charting political predominance across Italy’s 20 regions.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: centerleft; election; italy; left; leftpd; pd; renzi
Interesting map. The 5 Star won southern Italy. The Center-Left only won in Tuscany and Tyrol.
1 posted on 03/06/2018 8:28:58 AM PST by C19fan
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The pro-EUSSR parties were massacred.

You have a Europskeptc populist-conservative coalition up against Brussels.

Bad news for Fuhrerein Merkel.


2 posted on 03/06/2018 8:40:05 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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The Left disappearing? Now that’s real progressivism!


3 posted on 03/06/2018 8:42:38 AM PST by StormEye
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HOORAY Italy


4 posted on 03/06/2018 8:43:08 AM PST by PGalt
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I guess the Italians got tired of their “visitors” and realized they would need someone else in charge to solve the problem.


5 posted on 03/06/2018 8:44:47 AM PST by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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Italexit?....................


6 posted on 03/06/2018 8:45:26 AM PST by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: Red Badger

MIGA


7 posted on 03/06/2018 8:46:38 AM PST by himno hero (hadnuff)
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The “right” in Italy, except for resistance to the refugee invasion and euro-world dislike, would be considered socialists here. They are just nationalist socialists.

Remember them?


8 posted on 03/06/2018 9:16:28 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (DACA is going to be a riot!)
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Apparently the Italians are tired of African savages dismembering and eating Italian women.


9 posted on 03/06/2018 9:22:52 AM PST by Dagnabitt (Point at the Q-Tards and Laugh!)
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It would be great if Matteo Salvini were selected as PM. He’s an alpha male, and admires Trump.


10 posted on 03/06/2018 9:26:40 AM PST by I want the USA back (My preferred personal pronoun is "Your Majesty.")
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Yes, the election results in Italy were a thumb in the eye for the EU.

But, the real contest is coming in 2019 when the next round of EU elections takes place. Italy and Germany are moving to the right. The former Warsaw Pact countries in the EU are lining up against the tyranny of Brussels.

Ms. Merkel oped Pandora's box with her rash decision to open the borders. The payback is a bitc* and coming sooner than the elite expected.

11 posted on 03/06/2018 10:00:35 AM PST by lowbuck (The Blue Card (US Passport) Don't leave home without it.)
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Yep - I was stationed in San Vito Italy in the late ‘70’s and it was a normal thing for a huge crowd of communists to march down the main drag of Brindisi...has to be worse these days.


12 posted on 03/06/2018 10:36:59 AM PST by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: Red Badger; All

Italeave


13 posted on 03/06/2018 10:38:27 AM PST by goldbux (No sufficiently rich interpreted language can represent its own semantics. — Alfred Tarski, 1936)
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The Left disappearing? Now that’s real progressivism!

The Left is 100% committed to Muslim immigration. If you are against Muslim immigration as your top issue, the only thing you CAN do is to vote against the Left.

14 posted on 03/06/2018 10:40:28 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big governent is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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“The Left disappearing?”

You should look up the 5 Star Movement goals. They’re “populists” in much the same way as Henry Wallace was.


15 posted on 03/06/2018 10:42:41 AM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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The Trump effect.

MIGA!


16 posted on 03/06/2018 10:44:19 AM PST by TADSLOS (Alex Jones isnÂ’t quite the wing nut now, all things considered.)
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Surprised by the Tyrol result...thought they had a movement to secede from Italy altogether and rejoin Austria. Which doesn’t parse with “center-left”.


17 posted on 03/06/2018 11:23:33 AM PST by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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