Who Would Italians Vote for?
If general elections were held today, who would Italians choose to run their troubled nation? Silvio Berlusconi, Matteo Renzi, Beppe Grillo, or maybe even a descendant of Benito Mussolini? An increasing number of Italians no longer think voting serves any useful purpose. They are right – they have reached this conclusion several decades too late, in this Italy […]
Regional Election Results Reveal the Dire State Democracy in Italy
Last weekend, elections were held in two of Italy’s regions – Emilia-Romagna in Italy’s north and Calabria in the nation’s south. The results of these elections are significant not so much for the victories as for the exceptionally low voter turnout which indicate just how chronically ill democracy in Italy really is. In both of these […]
How Democracy Does not Work in Italy
Italy is, on paper at least, a constitutional democracy. Expensive general elections are regular events in Italy mainly because governments don’t last too long. While lots of votes may be cast, not all of them reflect the true desires of voters as many of them have been told who to vote for. That votes have […]
Levi-Prodi blog gaggers extraordinaire
Yes, I was a bit slow on the uptake re the Levi Prodi attempts to censor bloggers attempts to tell it how it is with regard to the situation in Italy. But I am not all that surprised that there was something of a time lag between the information getting out and ending up in […]
Beppe Grillo rattles the establishment.
Various Italian politicos are going on both the defensive and the attack with regard to Mr Grillo’s attempts to get Italy back onto a truly democratic track. Aside from Bertinotti, we now have D’Alema and Fassino having a go at dismissing Mr Grillo for having had the temerity to have stated that all is not […]