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Under the convoluted and hugely undemocratic rules the election of Italian deputies and senators has thrown up a whole bunch of usual suspects.  First amongst these is Lurch Ghedini, the lawyer of Berlusconi and a senator who vaunts an absence rate of 99.27% from parliament.   His complete apathy and disinterest in the process of…

As the results continue to dribble in, Italy has woken up to a bit of a mess.  The 5 star is the biggest party at 30%,  the right the largest coalition at. 35%, so nobody is going anywhere.  Before the politicos start the dissection, its worth pointing out a few facts that are conveniently obfuscated…

One of Berlusconi’s tv channels ran a story about the 5 Star movement ‘stealing money’ which all the press and tv channels have been running with for over a week.   nobody has actually bothered to put it in context, mainly because all the press and tv dont want 5Star to win because they have…

Don Silvio is promising everything to everyone this election.  Yesterday, not content with flat tax,  free money for everyone, and no immigration he went back to his first manifesto from the 1990’s and promised a condono on illegal building as well as not having to have any permission to build a house in the first…

Elections are a rum do.  Onthe one hand we have the ancient Silvio promising (repromising)  the Bridge across the straits of Messina and a Marshall Plan for the south and Sicily, whilst on the other we have a Sicily which is deliberately cutting itself off from its major source of income, ie. tourism.    The…

It’s going to be a busy few months – the powers that be have decided that there will be a national election on 4 March, and the catcalling has already begun.  More immediate is the great plastic bag mystery that is being perpetrated on the Italian people. All of a sudden in December we were…

So Musumeci and the vast coalition of the right won Sicily,  with a combination of disparate groups who are already disagreeing.  The 5 Stars came second – a single party which had requested independent checks on the veracity of the election.   Within 24 hours, a newly elected deputy for the coalition had been arrested…

The count has started to determine who will be the new president of Sicily.   IT seems that it’s a run off between Musumeci for  Forza Italia and Cancelleri for M5S.   Renzi’s PD has been demolished – in fact all the left wing together doesn’t even amount to 25%.  So , while Berlo did…

There’s a growing sense of febrility  as elections near.  First off, there’s the new election law at national level.  This had been consigned to the bin once Renzi had lost the vote last December, but the growing threat of hte M5S has meant all the established parties have suddenly become very keen to pass a…