360. Italian Elections: What’s New?

Pallazzo Montecitorio (Lower House)

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The results of the last elections in Italy which gave ¼ votes to the Left, ¼ to the Right, ¼ to the Grillo Movement and ¼ to absenteeism, therefore producing no real winner, is quite reassuring for Italian politics as it shows Italy is back to normal again, nothing new.

Quite honestly I think the results of this national election is a question of much ado about nothing. The Left Wing led by Bersani, thanks to the award of 55% given to the coalition that has the relative majority enables such majority to govern quite comfortably.

This in effect means that there is a fully functioning government with an overall majority in the Lower House and a small relative majority in the Upper House for which a coalition with Berlusconi ‘s or Grillo’s coalition is needed.

Those are the facts which to me do not constitute a major tragedy as the rest of the world enjoys to speculate upon.

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