Tag: Election in Italy
Italy: As if nothing were there
Italians are indeed on the verge of electing the far right to power. It’s high time to meet Paolo Berizzi, the man who knows the right-wing extremists like no other…
TV election campaign: duel between two Italy – politics
The election favorite Giorgia Meloni from the post-fascists competes online with the social democrat Enrico Letta: very civilized and on first name terms. The two like each other, but their…
Is Russia interfering in the Italian election? – Politics
The Kremlin’s interest in the Italian parliamentary elections of September 25 is clearly greater than it should be. Interested in the sense of: in anticipation of an outcome that would…
Giorgia Meloni keeps the controversial flame in the logo for the elections – politics
Italy is debating a flame in the three national colors, and no wonder. It may also be the beginning of a much larger discussion about the past hundred years of…
Italy: The legal alliance falls apart – politics
Italians are now realizing that status quo is not necessarily the same as standing still. After the re-election of President Sergio Mattarella, which automatically also meant Mario Draghi’s remaining as…
Italy: Parliament re-elects Sergio Mattarella as President – Politics
from Oliver Meiler, Rome And suddenly everything happened very quickly. Italy’s parliament on Saturday, after a week of capers by self-proclaimed kingmakers, surrendered to its own inability to elect a…
Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella resigns in triumph
from Oliver Meiler, Rome The standing ovation lasted six minutes. That’s a lot even at La Scala, Milan’s thrilling opera house. This time, however, the triumph was not for a…
Berlusconi’s farewell opens race for Italy’s presidency – Politics
The last coup has burst, and this time it was really the last. Silvio Berlusconi will not run for the presidential elections, which begin this Monday at 3 p.m. in…
The right sends Berlusconi into the race for Italy’s presidency – politics
And again everyone is talking about Silvio Berlusconi. Whatever you think of the 85-year-old Milanese media entrepreneur and four-time Italian prime minister, he has the gift of always putting himself…
Italy’s presidential election: Why not finally “una donna”? – Politics
Vulgar insults, sexist attacks, death threats: The politician Laura Boldrini has recently gotten more dirt than almost any woman in Italy. Why the country has never had a female president…