The Union has won the Camera. Prodi is the next Council President but it will be very difficult to govern with half the nation on the other side. Prodi has promised to unite Italy yet nothing is now more apparent than its division.
Will he overcome this grave situation? He has promised to be radical in his approach and perhaps it may be the best ground at the moment to seize the initiative. Prudence and conciliation may be nice on paper but useless in the Italy we have inherited.
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I also noticed that on the web pages it is 153 to 148 but this is short of the total number domestically (309 is the proper number).. what is going on?
And yes.. I also want to know about the vitalici.
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
This makes 155:154..and later we will know the 6 extras. It all comes to that... ...and the vitalici.
Usually they would abstain from voting confidence to a new government or over a law.
There will be six foreign Senators.
No non-coalition party won enough votes to be in Parliament. There will only be the two coalitions with regional minority language parties.
BTW, to you and kcurie and other night-owls: to end the comment overflow, I created a second Italy elections thread on the frontpage, please migrate over! *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
