{"id":179368,"date":"2018-03-04T23:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/04\/meanwhile-in-italy\/"},"modified":"2018-03-04T23:36:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T04:36:00","slug":"meanwhile-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/03\/04\/meanwhile-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Meanwhile in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still unclear, but it appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-43272700\">neither major coalition has managed to secure a majority<\/a>, which means that Italian politics are (once again) highly fluid:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Based on votes counted by 0230 GMT, ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi&#8217;s centre-right coalition looks set to win the most seats in the lower house of parliament.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">It is tipped to get 248-268 seats &#8211; below the 316 needed for a majority.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Forming a government may now take weeks of negotiation and coalition-building.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Alternatively, fresh elections could be held in a bid to produce a more decisive result &#8211; though there is no guarantee that would happen.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Vote projection figures put the anti-establishment Five Star Movement in second place. It has made significant gains and could emerge as the largest single party, with 216-236 lower house seats.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">A centre-left coalition led by the governing Democratic Party stands in third place, with a projected 107-127 seats &#8211; its prospects battered by public anger over unemployment and immigration.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Final confirmed results are not expected for several hours.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The collapse of the center-left is not a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>The core tenet of the center-left in the EU is support for the EU, and the EU is fundamentally a conservative neoliberal institution.<\/p>\n<p>Unqualified support of the EU means that the center-left has already destroyed itself, and the voters are finally recognizing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s still unclear, but it appears that neither major coalition has managed to secure a majority, which means that Italian politics are (once again) highly fluid: Based on votes counted by 0230 GMT, ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi&#8217;s centre-right coalition looks set to win the most seats in the lower house of parliament.It is tipped to get &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[375,371,374],"class_list":["post-179368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-europe","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}