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A Kick in the Teeth for Berlusconi

category international | politics / elections | news report author Wednesday June 16, 2004 17:38author by hs - sp Report this post to the editors

serious defeat for silvio

A Kick in the Teeth for Berlusconi

A massacre for the centre right coalition in provincial and city council elections

A Kick in the Teeth for Berlusconi

A massacre for the centre right coalition in provincial and city council elections

In local and provincial elections the Berlusconi government has suffered defeat after defeat right across Italy.
Centre left and centre left - communist coalitions have won (so far) 38 provinces and 18 city councils compared to centre right victories in only 3 provinces and a handful of cities mainly in Sicily. In the provincial elections centre left - communist coalitions often won by margins of 2 to 1 while making important victories on the island of Sardinia.

In the traditionally leftist central region of Emilia Romagna centre left communist coalitions won in seven out of eight provinces on the first count. A massive victory in the province of Bologna saw an almost incredible margin of 63,4% to the centre rights 17.2%. In Tuscany another traditional leftist region centre left communist coalitions won all eight provinces on the first count. In Livorno the left took 59.3% compared to 29.7% for the right. The left also took all the provinces in Umbria.

In the Southern region of Campania the left took the important province of Naples while in Puglia the left (at the time of writing) has taken three out of four provinces. In the northern region of Lombardio the count is continuing while in Piemonte the left has taken three provinces so far.

In the city council elections the left took all of Emilia Romagna, including the recapture of Bologna itself. In Tuscany at the time of writing the left had taken 3 cities including Florence. In the South the left have won power in both Naples and Bari.

Only in Sicily the right saw victories although the party of Berlusconi, Forza Italia saw a huge drop in support with many voters switching to the Christian Democrats or the National Alliance. And the communist left made major gains.

Related Link: http://www.socialistworld.net
author by jeffpublication date Wed Jun 16, 2004 18:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Right wing monetarist policy is a disease, as is the fawning to the US, and the hoardes of toad like journalists that pandr to such. At least we still have the elections, they have not been rigged yet.

I am looking forward to the reemergence of centre left governments through out Europe. Media rats will still whine " Why punish the rich?" Funny that. Government intervention in helping the poor is a no no, because it distorts the markets.

Well, the tide is coming back in scumbags, and you will drown.( I'm talking to the PDs, Forza Italia, former PP from Spain, and all the other disgusting degenerates) You let greedy investors screw ordinary people over rent, and call it liberal, vibrant, free trade. Social Welfare is bad, the por need to be able to stand on their own feet. That is why you suspens rent allowance payments.

We all got news for you. We'll stand on our own feet all right, and we will use them to stand on your heads. You may see yourselves as hard workers ( hard con men more like) Your children will not be so hard. Create envy and you create a very dangerous situation for your childrten. You forment revolt with your arrogance.

Monetarists, for the future safety of Europe, we demand you retire now.

author by iosafpublication date Wed Jun 16, 2004 20:35author address author phone Report this post to the editors

more stuff :-
article in the english guardian focussing on the Socialist win by a former TV journalist in Rome.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1240191,00.html
in true Italian style, (that means tomato sauce for Parlin county and pesto for Dublin 6w, [I'm sure Mc Dowell has gone abroad on holidays], {just as celtic tiger has meant to most the ability to choose a good Italian pasta suace in the local multi-national-corporation supermarket} - though as I never tire of reminding everyone, he has not spent any formative time outside of Terenure)
anyway-
the parties of the governing Coalition (remind you of anything) have since 19h00 started talking very seriously about splitting.
"it was their fault!"
"they lost us the election!"
"I've lost my best parliamentary drinking buddy!"
see the updates and learn a little Italian -

http://www.repubblica.it/news/ired/ultimora/altre_n.html

http://www.corriere.it/ultima_ora/agrnews.jsp

If I had thought it was this much fun to schwing elections, I'd have thought about voting.

author by hs - sppublication date Wed Jun 16, 2004 21:29author address author phone Report this post to the editors

yeah eye-tie politics!!! what can you say. for the first night everyone (after the euro results) fought about who won. Now they're arguing over wh0's fault it was they lost. watch this space!

 
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