Important thread about the political context in Italy in the runup to the general election after the far-right supporter's gun attack on foreigners
#elezionipolitiche #ElezioniPolitiche2018 #CampagnaElettoralehttps://twitter.com/franxstrax/status/960204188398575616 …
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“Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition leads Italy's election race, polls published on Friday suggest, but the bloc falls short of an absolute majority and millions of voters remain undecided.”
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#PoterealPopolo (Power to the People), a new grassroots left-wing movement aiming at running for the March general elections [and] at giving new lifeblood and a new perspective to Italy’s radical left”#campagnaelettorale#elezioni4marzohttps://www.greenleft.org.au/content/power-people-italy-new-left-wing-movement-born …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@robertosaviano: “Nowadays, when a politician, a journalist or an intellectual starts out with statements such as: “Whatever you think about immigration”, they must realise that they are acting irresponsibly. [...] no flippancy can be tolerated.”https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/feb/11/fascism-is-back-in-italy-and-its-paralysing-politics …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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"Millions of Italians began voting on Sunday after a bitter general election campaign dominated by disappointment with the economic recovery and anxiety over immigration, concerns that have fuelled the populist opposition"
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@broderly: “In its backwardness, Italy was way ahead of the rest; in its chaos, it has provided the model for our time.”#ElezioniPolitiche2018 https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/03/italian-election-far-right-m5s-lega …pic.twitter.com/v5LpM6SIHm
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@Reuters: “Italy faces a prolonged period of political instability after voters delivered a hung parliament in Sunday's election, spurning traditional parties and flocking to anti-establishment and far-right groups in record numbers.”#ItalyElection2018http://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1GH0GI …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@broderly: “The decline of the parties who have ruled Italy since the early 1990s is notably expressed in the impossibility of forming a grand coalition [...]. Parties which achieved 70% of the vote in 2008 were this Sunday below 34%.”#ItalyElectionhttps://www.versobooks.com/blogs/3659-stung-parliament …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Excellent reporting by
@JamesPoliti and@hanrobs sheds light on Davide Casaleggio, the businessman at the heart of the Five Star party#ItalyElection2018#CinqueStelle#Mov5Stelle https://www.ft.com/content/546be098-989f-11e7-a652-cde3f882dd7b …pic.twitter.com/lmYYuDWYA6
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@annamomi: "The “Five Star Che Guevara” [Alessandro Di Battista] may return to prominence, but he’s unlikely to do anything to change Italy’s harsh immigration policy. If anything, he will reinforce it."https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/26/italys-left-wing-populists-wont-stop-the-far-right-theyll-strengthen-it-alessandro-di-battista-m5s-five-star-salvini-league-immigration-xenophobia/ …Show this thread
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