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Results for Italy:

EPP-ED: 36 seats
ALDE: 6 seats
UEN: 8 seats
non-inscrits: 22 seats

(my guess is PD will join the PES, but apparently they're undecided)

by nanne (zwaerdenmaecker@gmail.com) on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 06:02:14 PM EST
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It's an internal problem. The PD is more a chimera than a party with a strong leftist identity. It has a strong pata-leftist Catholic component that refuses any concession to secular and socialist values.

Were it to join the PSE, it could provoke a break-up. At the same time Word from Above might order to stay in, thus contaminating the PSE with pata-leftist Catholicism, that is when the vote comes on crucial issues, the PD in Europe might break ranks in order to keep its chimeric identity.

The projections on that site are based on a 39% vote for the Pdl. The latest projections have it at 35%.

by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 06:32:56 PM EST
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Is it the pata-Catholic element? I thought it was the ex-Radical liberals who wanted to go ALDE.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 06:43:49 PM EST
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Rutelli is an ex-Radical, pata-Catholic element.
by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 06:47:18 PM EST
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Results for Italy adjourned at 2h15:

EPP-ED: 34 seats

ALDE: 7 seats

UEN: 8 seats

non-inscrits: 23 seats

Reflects the poor showing of Woody's personal political entity, especially in Sicily where Lombardo set out to screw him. A falling out of thieves.

by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 08:18:35 PM EST
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