Italians
Apparently in Italy there’s a really good balance. Left wing Vs. right wing. They (both) will never make it.
But this is not the point.
The interesting part is where the full majority of Italians living abroad voted for the left coalition.
Does this mean that people outside Italy have a more objective point of view on the internal affairs, or that they’re more influenced by the foreign public opinion on Berlusconi’s attitudes?
April 12th, 2006 at 2:24 pm
I find it ironic that Berlusconi was the one that changed the rule to allow Italians living abroad to vote (without having to come to Italy to do so). It meant that so many more could vote than before. In Australia alone there was 176,000 people eligibile to vote in the Italian election (it was reported in our news). And if the resulting margin is 25,000 maybe they were the difference!
April 14th, 2006 at 9:35 am
http://www.repubblica.it/2005/b/rubriche/letterealdirettore/saving-private-prodi/saving-private-prodi.html
read this article, if you haven’t yet… i think it gives a lot of answers to the question you ask now and the doubt you had before the elections…
and it shows that it is not a matter of left vs right… this is nobody’s victory, but at least let’s hope to have some dignity back for our country…
April 14th, 2006 at 1:46 pm
It’s a pity the article is only in Italian, but yes, I totally, completely agree. And especially with the sentence: “I don’t believe that the Italy outside of Italy is left winged. The first vote from the Italians abroad has been against the government, whichever government they would have had”…
Now that Berlusconi has been sent home, dignity will be back, but nothing else will change… with a new ex-prime minister.