Prodi wins!!!!!!!!!!! April 11, 2006
Posted by dorigo in news, politics.trackback
Just minutes ago I got the final news: Prodi is the winner and has more seats in both chambers. At the Camera dei deputati 340 seats have gone to the center-left coalition and 277 to the center-right, at the Senato della Repubblica 155 to 154.
Unbelievable. The margin is the tightest ever in Italy: 20000 votes on a total of 50 million for the Camera. At the Senate, it looked like the right would actually get more seats until the very last moment, when results from the votes cast by italians living in foreign countries were counted. This is ironic: it was a former fascist, Mirko Tremaglia, who advocated a change in the electoral law to allow votes to be cast from other countries.
I am still slightly confused, but one thing is now clear. Prodi needs to form a government and will lead the country with a very narrow margin of consensus in the Senate. He will have to be very careful to stay in charge for long.
I am eager to see the face of our master liar, Silvio Berlusconi. On one thing, though, he did not lie: his polls said these elections would be a close call. They were indeed exceedingly close!
I think it’s to early for a serious analysis but Prodi wins -technically -for three reasons:
1 – right of vote for italians living abroad
2 – electoral system at the senate: less votes but more seats
3 – electoral system at the Chamber: narrow margin but a strong majority thanks to “coalition premium”.
I disagreed with all these 3 electoral rules and also left parties strongly opposed them (the 2nd and the 3rd in particular) so I have the pleasaure to remember this italian sentence: “chi รจ causa del suo mal pianga se stesso”…
Now the left parties should erase these electoral rules they strongly opposed to!
Beside this (in these days I’ve developed a true love for the words “beside this” ;P ), I think that such a narrow margin of consensus will make difficult the life of the new Govern.
The Unione, indeed, has always been broken in two parts concerning to some of the more “hot” themes, such Moratti reform (abolish, or modify), gay marriage (yes or no), taxes on dead man’s money (reintroduce them for >14000euros or >somemillion euros?) and so on…
Things will still be foggy for some months, I think. Some voices claim even that in autumn the new government will fall… The only thing that is clear is the parity of the positronium…
clear for you…I had to search on wikipedia to see (not understand..too complicated) what positronium is…..
Narrow margin: sure we don’t have a presidential system, but in the US an even more narrow margin didn’t stop Bush to start a war….
Another example: Marrazzo won regional elections for few votes but he’s leading Lazio in the same way Formigoni or Galan do with a strong “popular” majority…
I think Prodi just needs to throw two undersecretary seats under the ass of the few congressmen elected by UDEUR and a minor Minister charge to Mastella, , make Capezzone Ministro delle Riforme, Pecoraro Scanio Ministro dell’Ambiente, and the coalition may last. Bertinotti and Diliberto will be very quiet, eventually problems will come from members of the Margherita willing to do the jump of the quail.
Hmm I heard yesterday that Bertinotti said he would like to have the chair of Letizia Moratti (I did not heard if he wants it for himself or a colleague). Is it true?
P.S. hem, sorry, Francesco, I just started a laboratory course about positronium, so I’m quite excited about it… By the way, basically it is an electron that is attracted from a positron (a thing identical to the electron, except for the opposite electrical charge), giving birth to a new object (the positronium). It’s like the situation in which an electron and a proton give birth to an atom