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Voter turnout- unofficial- at 19h00 is 53%.
by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 02:00:13 PM EST
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Turnout for Italy- down by comparison with 2004.
by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 02:01:27 PM EST
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Almost final results: 56.48% down from 70.70%. What a disgrace!
by Tcpip on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 04:10:37 PM EST
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Actually that was only partial. At around 72% of the precincts counted the percentage of voter turnout is nearly 65% and rising.
by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 04:52:27 PM EST
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Is that good or bad news?

The brainless should not be in banking. — Willem Buitler
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 04:53:09 PM EST
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Now around 66%. Voter turnout has traditionally been very high in Italy. It appears to be within the general trend of eroding disinterest for politics but 10% lower than 2004 is still high.
by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Sun Jun 7th, 2009 at 05:12:34 PM EST
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I was in Italy for the second half of may - the number of political posters was incomparably higher than in France...

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by linca (antonin POINT lucas AROBASE gmail.com) on Mon Jun 8th, 2009 at 07:23:21 AM EST
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It's like that for every election. I'm not sure exactly how it works, but they seem to put up boards all over town with space for posters from all of the parties.
by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Wed Jun 10th, 2009 at 02:13:36 AM EST
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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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