Now it's over.
Draghi made a strange speech to the parliament: either the coalition parties follow me or "the end".
Not a great convincing mechanism, I was expecting more negotiations behind the scenes and maybe giving each party a piece of legislation, but bankers are not necessarily good politicians...
It seems obvious that Draghi is not so keen on this job...
There are rumors about a possible EU position.
All parties exept one chose "the end".
If you can, please vote now in September or October, because racists and fascists surely will.Italian politics are a total mess. The citizenry is even more jaded than Americans with their crop of politicians...I cant even keep up with it myself and I am a registered voter for Italian elections
The population is aging, the economy has been poor since converting from the Lira to the Euro and there are ghost villages scattered throughout the country. They are really in dire straits
If you can, please vote now in September or October, because racists and fascists surely will.
If you live abroad, you must change your residence to AIRE (Anagrafe Italiani Residenti all'Estero) to get the ballot per mail, if you haven't already done so.
Multiple parties system offers just one advantage over the American system, one can choose personally the most important topic and vote accordingly:
- LGBT rights and social issues: PD (Letta, yes, the nephew of Berlusconi's right hand)
- poverty and ecology: M5S (Conte)
- fiscal conservatism: FI (Berlusconi)
- immigration (our code word for racism) or cancelling corporate tax debt: Lega (Salvini)
- straight fascists: FdI (Melloni)
Berlusconi made an unexpected move yesterday by joining Salvini, since his party is expected to do worse at the next elections.
I believe Salvini and Melloni probably made a deal with him to let him into their next government, and he'll probably give them additional space on his TVs during the campaign.
For following news: Repubblica is now Business Insider
PD oriented: Corriere della Sera
M5S oriented: Fatto Quotidiano
Edit:
Positive aspect: PD got rid of Renzi, and M5S got rid of Di Maio, so both are more votable now
In September 2018, he said: "I'm paid by citizens to help our young people start having children again the way they did a few years ago, and not to uproot the best of the African youth to replace Europeans who are not having children anymore"
Salvini also endorsed the Republican candidate in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Donald Trump, whom he met in April 2016 in Philadelphia.[216] Multiple news agencies have compared him and his views to those of Trump.[217][218] In September 2018, Salvini pledged his support for The Movement, a European populist group founded by Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon.[219]
In September 2018, Salvini endorsed conservative nationalist candidate Jair Bolsonaro in the Brazilian presidential election that year.[224]
"I am preparing to govern the nation”, proclaims this Italian Marine Le Pen, activist, in adolescence, in a post-fascist organization. An original commitment about which she maintains an ambiguous attitude – she thus called for re-establish November 4 as a national holiday : she judges the anniversary of the victory of the First World War “more unifying” than April 25, the day of the Liberation of the Nazi occupation, or June 2, that of the birth of the Italian Republic, in 1946.
For following news: Repubblica is now Business Insider
PD oriented: Corriere della Sera
M5S oriented: Fatto Quotidiano
Berlusconi just gave an interview to La Repubblica.
During his government he would give interviews to Corriere della Sera...
Just a recent example how these two newspapers switched political affiliation in the last few years, and specially since the owner of ex-FIAT owner John Elkann bought Repubblica in 2019.
John Elkann used to own Corriere della Sera until 2016:
Meet Italy’s newest crown prince of media
Agnelli heir John Elkann is an unlikely political power broker.www.politico.eu
In 2016 another rich financial group took over the company behind Corriere, so poor Elkann had to buy Repubblica...
So, comparing to US politics:
- Corriere della Sera Is now PD oriented (i.e. similar to centrist dems)...
- Repubblica is now the financial elites newspaper, trying to make Berlusconi into Romney-like figure (conservative but not crazy like Salvini and Meloni), which is going swell (since he's too Trump-like)
- Salvini and Meloni own social media (unsurprisingly)
- Il Fatto Quotidiano is owned by a group of journalists that separated from Repubblica (most notable Marco Travaglio), surviving because the country still has a huge leftist tradition, and a lot of members of ex-CP are still alive. It is more M5S oriented (i.e. similar to progressive Dems, and mostly pushing assistance to the poor and ecological transition)
We might have problems this winter with energy, food and water, but I intend to pay my Fatto subscription at any cost.
We need a newspaper not owned by the elites.