Oh no, the 56% are split on various parties that include communists, socialists, centrists and the five star movement which is sort of... uhm... an anti-politics populist party? Centrist populists? I don't really know how to describe them. They're neither left nor right wing but very anti-establishment.Mëds wrote: ↑Tue Sep 27, 2022 8:00 pmAre the candidates on the 56% side of the vote all aligned just different parties in name? Or would it be like here in Canada where you have a small majority split between the NDP and Liberals? Two parties that are quite different in their platforms and goals yet simply uniting to oppress the right wing party and it's supporters?Per wrote: ↑Tue Sep 27, 2022 1:15 am These elections also show a problem with fptp elections, which they have in Italy. The three coalition parties, Brothers of Italy, Lega and Forza Italia agreed to back a single joint candidate in each constituency, whereas the centre and left parties did not do this and all had separate candidates. This has resulted in a resounding victory for the right wingers, despite only receiving 44% of the vote, as the other 56% were split on multiple separate candidates. In a proportional system they would not have won.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63029909
In Italy it is the three parties on the right that have joined forces to get higher representation than their respective results would grant them. Lega is mainly anti-immigration, originally they were secessionists and called Lega Nord; they wanted the prosperous northern Italy to declare independence from from the poverty stricken southern Italy, or at least not have their taxes pay for the failures down south. But they've also always stressed the anti-immigration part. And they probably would like a naval blockade preventing people from Sicily to enter the mainland as well, half-Arabs as they are...
Forza Italia is right wing populism at its finest. Berlusconi made a career in television, bought most of the Italian newspapers (and Milan FC) and then decided to make himself prime minister. He has been convicted of and served time for corruption and there was a bit of a scandal over his wife leaving him because of his 16 year old mistress. An Italian pre-cursor to Trump, I guess. Though not bad mouthing the press so much, since he owns most of it.
Fratelli d'Italia is more traditional fascism, nation-church-family but spruced up to feel more mainstream conservative. Meloni was a member of the MSI youth prganisation though, has praised Mussolini's politics and they still use the red-white-green flame as their party symbol, symbolising an eternal flame burning beside Mussolini's tomb.
I mean, they're three separate parties, but through not competing against eachother they managed to win most constituencies because the other rparties did not resort to that kind of tactics.
We'll see how it works out. They agree on a lot of issues but far from all. Fascism does have a corporatism element that wants to care for the poor, as long as they qualify through ethnicity and ideology, whereas the other two parties are more in your face "f--k the poor!" Also, both Berlusconi and Salvini have a history of sucking up to Putin, whereas Meloni has supported the Ukrainians all along.
On average, since WW2, Italian governments last 13 months, so don't be surprised if this one blows up as well.