Vi invito a leggere questo articolo tratto dall'Economist in cui discute dei risultati delle scorse elezioni amministrative.
I punti salienti sono: crisi di Berlusconi, conflitto con Tremonti, alleanza con la populista e islamofobica Lega Nord, vittoria dell'opposizione e contemporanea sconfitta del maggior partito della stessa (il PD).
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WHAT could be worse for the euro than political instability in Italy? How about a government trying to buy popularity with higher public spending and/or tax cuts? ...Yet soon after the elections it became clear that Mr Berlusconi wanted to change fiscal policy. Asked what he would do if his finance minister refused to loosen the purse strings, he replied: “We’ll make them open. Tremonti doesn’t decide. ...The loss of Arcore was one of several that made these elections a personal calamity for Mr Berlusconi. ...The loyalty of Umberto Bossi’s movement, which combines regionalism with populism and Islamophobia, is vital to the government’s survival. Its poor showing in the first round had persuaded many in the League that the time had come to sever links with Mr Berlusconi’s People of Freedom movement. The second round, in which the League lost control of the north-eastern city of Novara, will make that view more widely shared. ...The new mayor of Milan, Giuliano Pisapia, was not the choice of Italy’s biggest opposition group, the centre-left Democratic Party, but of the smaller and more radical Left, Ecology and Freedom movement, led by the governor of Puglia, Nichi Vendola. The winner in Naples was a maverick former prosecutor, Luigi de Magistris, who ran for the anti-corruption Italy of Principles party, founded by another former prosecutor, Antonio Di Pietro. Not the least of the questions posed by these elections was whether they presage a shift not just on the right, but also on the left.
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