Daniele Albertazzi
@DrAlbertazziUK
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Co-Director @SurreyCbe . Director of Research & Professor, Dept of Politics @UniOfSurrey . #populism , #partyorganisation , #EuropeanPolitics . Tweets=my views.
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I've been thinking for a while about the meaning of "mainstream" today, & how we can identify whatever falls into this category.
By working with
@CrulliMirko
, I have finally managed to reach some tentative conclusions, which are being kindly hosted by
@WEPsocial
(Free access!)👇
Introducing a new conceptualisation of the 'mainstream',
@CrulliMirko
&
@DrAlbertazziUK
show that while liberal-& social-democracy are 'mainstream', the populist radical right is 'established' but still not 'mainstream'.
@Rout_PoliticsIR
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Nonna Ada, 104 years old, recovers from Covid 19 in Lombardy.
Everything is possible. In alto i cuori.
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If you live in Italy & wonder whether millions of voters suddenly embrace "neofascist" ideas, stop fretting.
They do not.
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Le mie figlie in Gran Bretagna hanno solo 6 settimane di vacanza in estate. Ma:
1. Non vanno a scuola al sabato
2. Si beccano una settimana di vacanza extra ogni trimestre (half term)
3. Stanno a casa più a lungo degli studenti italiani sia a natale che a pasqua.
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If we look at the Italian right-wing alliance as a whole, as I kept inviting you to do, & not exclusively at its components, we find that - in terms of the simple count of votes - this is a modest result.
Gone are the days of 48% overall.
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Italian PM has reinvented herself as a moderate centrist in a matter of months, leaving the League behind, still barking abt excessive nr of foreigners in Italian schools...
Salvini won't catch up anytime soon, his party needs a new leader & message.
Ottimo bilancio della missione in Etiopia. C’è molta attenzione per la nostra capacità di cooperare in modo non predatorio contribuendo alla stabilità delle nazioni africane, difendendo così anche le nostre aziende sul territorio e contrastando le cause dell’immigrazione illegale
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I am getting calls from the Italian public service broadcaster asking if I can help explain the mess British politics has become.
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Exactly one month ago
@matteorenzi
's
@ItaliaViva
refused to vote in favour of Draghi's Justice reform, and ended up abstaining.
One month later nobody even remembers this.
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Sono al governo quasi ininterrottamente da dieci anni, e la precarita' praticamente l'hanno inventata loro.
Ma nella prossima legislatura... nella prossima legislatura...
Nella prossima legislatura governa Giorgia Meloni.
Aiutare i
#giovani
ad uscire di casa prima dei 30anni, media attuale 🇮🇹, tra le più alte in 🇪🇺. Arrivare alla media europea dei 25anni. È questo l’obbiettivo concreto che ci poniamo per la prossima legislatura. A
#LAquila
per Stefania
#PezzopaneSindaca
.
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Prima ti sfruttano, poi ti cancellano lo stato sociale e alla fine - non contenti - ti prendono pure per i fondelli. Come se non fossero loro stessi la quintessenza del fallimento.
Italia Viva usa “stagista” come insulto.
Sono stato uno stagista non pagato. Come me un’intera generazione.
L’Italia è una Repubblica fondata sugli stagisti non pagati.
E questi si divertono così, di fronte Louis Vuitton.
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The most interesting aspect of 🇮🇹 President Mattarella's end-of-year speech for me is the time spent on the Ukraine war + how clearly & unambiguously pro-Ukraine the speech has been.
Those who identify Italy as a weak link within the network of NATO & EU unity fail to grasp...
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.
@AlessioDAmato_
sarà ricordato dai posteri come l'unico politico al mondo ad essersi dimesso da un partito in polemica con una frase pronunciata da un esponente di un altro partito.
Ho comunicato a Stefano Bonaccini le mie dimissioni dall’Assemblea Nazionale del PD. Brigate e passamontagna anche No. È stato un errore politico partecipare alla manifestazione dei 5S. Vi voglio bene, ma non mi ritrovo in questa linea politica.
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Statement by
@GiorgiaMeloni
this evening: "Italy is in the EU & NATO, those who disagree are out of the govt, even if it means we won't even be able to start".
More radically pro-Putin & anti-Zelenskyy statements by
@berlusconi
made public today, with addition of claps by
@forza_italia
audience.
You are only allowed to act suprised if you are a member of the
@EPP
or are still a baby.
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What do Italian leaders of the major parties need to achieve in these EU Parliamentary elections? A short thread.
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Fresh data from Italy's Minister of Education: 25% of students in Italian schools are apparently "foreign", as none of their parents is Italian. They speak with a regional accent & are integrated in a network of relations with friends, teachers, etc.
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.
@EnricoLetta
must be commended for having done more to define the identity of the PD in a few months than all of his predessors put together. In short, the debate about whether the PD is a Social-Democratic party is now truly behind us.
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The data clearly shows that Meloni's success is built, to a large extent, on absorbing her allies. Again demonstrates fallacy of the narrative: "Italians have moved right in large nr". Apart from a share of the vote of the M5S, most of the rest comes from killing off the League.
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Nice to have been promoted to Reader in Politics by
@unibirmingham
.
I will try to use my IMMENSE powers to support new entrants to the profession whenever I can. It is MUCH harder for them now than it evr was - say - 15 years ago (certainly in the UK).
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This election is about Italy's welfare state.
Not "democracy's survival", nor the country's international alliances (including its place in the EU).
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Sorry to go on about this, but it remains true:
@berlusconi
's spot on intuition in 1994 was to understand that abt half of the Italian electorate would vote for a stone, or a bit of grass on one side of the road, if any of them could guarantee to keep the left out of power.
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To say that 🇮🇹 electorate has quickly turned right, as we'll hear from many from next week, is to ignore that a coalition including Italian Social Movement (then National Alliance), & Bossi's League (go check his statements on migrants) has been the strongest in country since '94
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Yet they'll have to wait age 18 to apply for citizenship.
Meanwhile, any Joe Rossi from NY whose great-grandfather came from Piumazzo can get Italian citizenship quickly and work anywhere in the EU.
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Today I am thinking of my friend who moved from Italy to the UK "to escape Berlusconi's Italy".
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@daraobriain
Hi, I am "the check" in a movie. I turn up when they've hardly touched the food & get settled as someone (usually a man) nonchalantly throws a handful of notes on the table, without counting them. You'll never know if I am an accurate reflection of what was ordered.
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Tra un appello a Draghi e un articolo sui reali britannici, il tempo per dare due mazzate alle nuove generazioni
@repubblica
lo trova sempre.
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Italy's public service broadcaster, RAI, is broadcasting eulogy after eulogy for one Berlusconi who died a year ago. I cannot think of anyone who's inflicted more damage to the country's economy, quality of political debate, and faith in institutions (+ the balance of power).
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Continua la campagna martellante di Confindustria, Confcommercio e dei partitucoli che costoro tengono al guinzaglio per schiavizzare un'altra generazione di italiani.
Non si fermeranno fino a quando il reddito di cittadinanza non sia stato abolito.
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Silvio Berlusconi has died today.
He invented the right wing coalition that has dominated Italian politics for 3 decades, and still dominates it today; and had huge impact on fostering bi-polar competition in the country.
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More radically pro-Putin & anti-Zelenskyy statements by
@berlusconi
made public today, with addition of claps by
@forza_italia
audience.
You are only allowed to act suprised if you are a member of the
@EPP
or are still a baby.
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From pariah to model for the centre-left on how to deal with asylum seekers.
And all in less than two years.
"I'm pleased that we're deepening our cooperation," Keir Starmer says after meeting with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni
The prime minister also commends Italy's "remarkable progress" tackling irregular migration
Follow live
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@luigidimaio
on
@La7tv
: "this is the first war in Europe in 80 years".
I kid you not, this is Italy's Foreign Minister.
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If it weren't for a certain Polish mayor, most Italian journalists + the PD would now ignore Salvini's selfies in THAT t-shirt & happily accept his "conversion" - no questions asked.
After all, they treat Berlusconi as the liberal, pro-European he has never been.
Fact.
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So, I am migrating to
@SurreyPolitics
@UniOfSurrey
as Professor of Politics from September.
Big thank you to
@ameliahadfield1
& Theofanis Exadaktylos for their very warm welcome to the department. Looking forward to meeting all my new colleagues & the students before too long!
Big news! Delighted to welcome
@DrAlbertazziUK
to our award-winning
@SurreyPolitics
here
@UniOfSurrey
! Daniele brings a terrific wealth of research & teaching experience: a very warm Surrey welcome, Daniele, here’s to exciting work including within
@SurreyCbe
!
@ameliahadfield1
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Elephant in the room so huge no-one can move one inch.
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They couldn't simply announce it. They had to compose a thread arguing that leaving, and then rejoining, had been good ideas in the first place...
DEAL DONE: The UK is joining Horizon Europe.
Following negotiations with
@EU_Commission
, UK scientists will now have access to the world’s largest research and innovation programme on better terms for British taxpayers.
It’s another step to grow the economy. Here’s why ⬇️
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Is
@GiorgiaMeloni
the "new Salvini" in terms of strategic blunders? Possibly not yet, but in the last few weeks she has made several mistakes, & has now landed in a bad place.
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Aiutate Elly Schlein a diffondere il suo messaggio, visto che nè il suo account su X nè il suo partito hanno voglia/tempo/coraggio sufficienti a diffonderlo tramite i loro canali.
“ Io penso che L'Italia ha sbagliato a non sostenere la risoluzione sulla tregua umanitaria. Chiamatela pausa, tregua, basta che si fermi questa strage di civili. Non possiamo assistere ad un massacro".
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For so many
#rejoiners
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After Johnson is gone - and it will be soon - my sense is anything at all that reminds people of him, they will want to chuck in the bin, and that will include Brexit.
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Votes still being counted in Italy's local elections.
However, a trend now emerging (alongside Salvini's humiliating defeat in the referenda). It now appears that Brothers of Italy is overtaking League in several NORTHERN municipalities.
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The radical right has been normalised as a governing actor in Europe for years. And it has impacted on the so-called "moderate" right in all sorts of ways in the process.
Good to see that even
@guardian
is starting to notice.
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Your reminder that an electoral system in two rounds is MEANT to keep the most disliked candidates out.
That's the logic of it, that's what it does.
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When I say that the bulk of the
@Conservatives
have turned to populist radical right ideology I am sometimes told not to exaggerate.
Well: spot the difference between good old Suella & any UKIP/Brexit party/Reform UK speaker of recent years.
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17 people presumed drowned today near the coast of Tunisia, while trying to cross into Europe. They were the wrong colour and nationality for the Italian centre-left (and the EU as a whole) to care.
Fact.
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Silvio Berlusconi's "I only gave money to those ladies because they had problems and I wanted to help them" is far superior to "I drove my wife and son to a beauty spot on my wife's birthday to test my eyesight", if you ask me.
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If you ever need reminding that life can throw ANYTHING at you AT ANY TIME, just consider that this man was only in charge of setting exam papers as late as April 2018.
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Breaking news: Berlusconi announces withdrawal from Presidential race.
There will never be a Silvio Berlusconi President of the Italian Republic. Let that sink in.
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1997. Bossi organises elections for the "Parliament of Padania". The lists:
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5 things to check after Sunday's 🇮🇹 elections [Note: I have not seen any reserved data, and polls have not been published for a while].
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Alexa, give me a policy that will damage the University sector without pacifying those who want to "stop the boats".
From today, the majority of foreign university students cannot bring family members to the UK.
In 2024, we’re already delivering for the British people.
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What do you mean "in hindsight"?
We knew absolutely EVERYTHING there was to know before the vote. ALL was predicted, printed in triple copy and left out there for all to see.
"In hindsight..."
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Breaking news: President Mattarella will follow the election from Ventimiglia next week, ready to cross into France and apply for asylum if Parliamentarians re-elect him to the Presidency.
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Another year goes by & I am told that I am finished (again!). Yet, according to polls, my party has gone from 6.5 to 10% in 2020, as I have re-packaged myself as a pro-EU, moderate, "anti-populist" leader.
See you at the next elections, folks, I won't mind being the kingmaker!
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Salvini announces his opposition to Finland and Sweden joining NATO.
All eyes on Brothers of Italy now to see how they'll position themselves on this one. My guess is that they'll leave good old Matteo on his own holding the baby.
#UkraineRussiaWar
#FinlandNATO
#Sweden
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.
@GiorgiaMeloni
keeps meeting with the leaders of Hungary & Poland. They keep telling her that Italy's attempts to share responsibility for processing asylum applications within EU will be resisted. So she comes back & explains how much she likes them & understands their position
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All abstentions are equal but some abstentions are more equal than others ,said the pig.
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Had Conte announced reopening the country with 4/500 deaths a day, more contagious variants spreading, tiny % of older people vaccinated... with no intention to apply for support from European Stability Mechanism, while looking relaxed about debt/GDP ratio at 160%...
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Pensate il genio di un paese in via di estinzione che spende risorse enormi per preparare laureati che finiscono a lavorare all'estero e invece di trattare le nuove generazioni con rispetto cerca di farne schiavi sottopagati.
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While
@GiorgiaMeloni
becoming PM is of course a strong possibility, the timing of it risks turning the opportunity into a poisoned chalice for her very, very rapidly.
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What saved us during the
@berlusconi
years was a (top quality) written Constitution.
Just saying.
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Impressive how the Italian radical right has gone from: "the Germans and Dutch don't want to help us recover from the pandemic, this is not the EU we need" to: "we just won't be able to spend all this recovery money so quickly, what were they thinking...".
Pnrr, Crosetto fa il punto sul dossier: «Vanno presi solo i fondi che siamo in grado di spendere»
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I am sorry for radical right supporters & left wing critics who keep suggesting
@GiorgiaMeloni
's govt is somehow unique in Italy's history. In fact -with exception of being the first led by a woman- it follows in the footsteps of previous right wing govts led by Berlusconi
100%
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By parking Salvini into the Transport & Infrastructure Ministry, the PM dramatically limits the kind of narratives his media team can come up with.
"New road being built here", "We are using EU finds to fix a school there"...
This has never been a theme the League has "owned"
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Over the moon for having been awarded large grant by
@ESRC
to research survival of the mass party model among populist radical right parties in Europe. Many thanks to co-investigators
@StijnTvanKessel
&
@ScottLucas_EA
for their work!
@unibirmingham
@CoSS_Birmingham
@BhamPolsis
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... to explain where the cash comes from -easy peasy! [this applies regardless of whether you are left or right].
This is the debate Meloni's opponents should be having right now. Much of the rest are weapons of mass distraction & clickbait articles about Mussolini. /END/
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Available data shows right-wing coalition on course to win 🇮🇹 elections, possibly with large maj. in Parliament. You'd expect their opponents to create an "anti-Meloni" front that includes the only party embracing some Social-Dem policies: M5s.
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40 years ago a bomb went off at the station of Bologna, killing 85 people & injuring 200. Pinnacle of the Strategy of Tension, masterminded by sectors of the Italian secret services, executed by the extreme right.
Huge stain on Italian democracy, which, however, somehow survived.
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I don't feel very sympathetic to those who believed the UK could hang on to all the advantages of EU membership while dropping all its commitments, and now find this can never be achieved.
Honestly, guys, take a moment to look at yourself in the mirror, will you?
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.
@TheEconomist
has never grasped the complexities of Italian politics (or maybe it doesn't want to).
According to their narrative, it is a simple struggle between "responsible", "good" technocrats & the "evil" populist right.
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Many in Italy - from both left and right - appear to think that "no to war, yes to peace, always!" is actually a meaningful position.
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It appears that the genre: "l wanted all the advantages of EU membership with none of the commitments, and now you are supposed to feel sorry for me" is still going strong.
“I feel trapped, it’s a nightmare. Why didn’t our politicians clearly tell us everything was going to change..."
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In Italy, one in four would consider voting for the Sardines.
Sure. Now they only need an ideology, some attractive proposals, a leader, a communication strategy & a party machine to implement this strategy -- & it's done.
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Draghi appears to be on the way out, as Forza Italia, League and M5S all say they will not support him.
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We'll get an ENORMOUS amount of coverage now about
@realDonaldTrump
being the oldest candidate for the US Presidency ever.
Of this l am sure.
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They haven't been asked to form the govt yet & they are already deeply split...
Most Forza Italia senators refuse to back candidate from Brothers of Italy as Speaker of the Senate -- despite agreement made by
@berlusconi
with allies.
Huge.
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There is absolutely no doubt that the German government is watching the UK closely, imitating & learning, one step at a time. I'm also expecting their next 5-year plan and military parades to be similar ours.
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Manifestos of Italy's League and Brothers of Italy (FdI), EU Parliamentary elections 2024.
Here are some brief thoughts. They are just first impressions, certainly not a systematic content analysis…
SHORT THREAD BELOW
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Looking at flows btw parties, as published by various sources, you'll see that Brothers of Italy has attracted neglegible support from outside the right.
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Some obvious reasons senator & former PM
@matteorenzi
should not have been asked to edit a newspaper (he has accepted):
1. He receives money to praise an authoritarian regime that chops journalists into pieces and puts them in suitcases.
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I now need to see
@berlusconi
elected to the Presidency with support from
@GiuseppeConteIT
's M5S & I can happily retire having witnessed it all during my lifetime.
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Time for a little thread on the relationship between Lega and M5S.
Here we go. 👇
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Breaking news: Renzi's ultimatum has now passed.
He had announced he'd withdraw his ministers from Conte's govt unless an agreement was reached with the PM by end of the day today.
No agreement reached.
No resignations.
Strong & stable Italian politics strikes again.
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And this is how it will go on and on. Under no circumstances can Meloni afford to step out of line with NATO and/or clash with the European Commission. And she won't.
@ZelenskyyUa
Dear
@ZelenskyyUa
, you know that you can count on our loyal support for the cause of freedom of Ukrainian people. Stay strong and keep your faith steadfast! 🇮🇹🇺🇦
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These levels of polarisation are -- quite obviously - unsustainable. And it's not just the US.
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When you are obsessed by the partner you have left and just need to know s/he's now truly unhappy.
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I believed the tabloids warning me that
@GiorgiaMeloni
would rule as an authoritarian leader and she cannot even pick a Health Minister of her liking because good old Silvio says no...
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Berlusconi promised "A New Italian Miracle", making reference to the impressive economic growth Italy enjoyed after WW2. But the conclusion that he did not in fact deliver - and indeed brought the country to the brink of default in 2011 - is simply inescapable.
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Per carità si può discutere di tutto. E tre mesi a casa possono un problema serio se non hai i nonni vicini (il welfare all' italiana...).
Però i paragoni vanno fatti guardando ai fatti.
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Vannacci, the radical right army general
@matteosalvinimi
placed at the head of the League's electoral list for the EU elections, is now widely expected to announce the creation of his own personal party.
Huge surprise!
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What was widely predicted has happened and right wing coalition wins the elections by a large margin of seats.
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Even those voters coming from M5S (not huge amount) are likely to be from its right flank (we know from past studies there were many within M5S. You can think of them as voters M5S BORROWED from the right - for as long as they were credible in their eyes).
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Remember how, not that long ago, several international media outlets were peddling stories about an imminent
#ITALEXIT
?
Now Italian parties are bending over backwards in a race to be seen as "more-pro-EU-than-thou"...
Ahead of the pack already: good old M5S & the League.
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So, what about right wing voters, esp. those who have switched to Meloni? They are, after all, one quarter of the people who bothered to vote (not "one quarter of the electorate"; neither: "one quarters of Italians", of course... look at turnout this time round).
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Italy becoming first country in Europe (the world?) to make it compulsory for all workers, whether in private companies or PA, to carry "Green Pass". They’ll be suspended if they do not (i.e. loss of income). Either they get vaccinated or they keep getting tested.
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This is either a second rate comedian who happens to look like Matteo Renzi or the guy himself who is holding a whole country to ransom in the middle of a pandemic.
Let that sink in everyone.
h/t
@marioricciard18
"È un grande piacere e un grande onore essere qui con il grande principe Mohammad bin Salman. Per me è un privilegio poter parlare con te di Rinascimento. Credo che l'Arabia Saudita possa essere il luogo per un nuovo Rinascimento. Vostra Altezza, grazie"
Che pena.
#Renzi
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398 morti per Covid ieri in UK. Per fortuna a sentire alcuni in Italia "abbiamo raggiunto l'immunita' di gregge", altrimenti chissa' che succedeva.
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The Italian coast guard has saved circa 2,000 people at sea since Friday, and is out to recover a further 1,500 right now. Ultimately, not even the present govt can afford to ignore requests for help from people trying to reach Europe.
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Among the many advantages of teaching sessions at the University of Bologna: you get to see this... 😃
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Glad to hear the Italian Ambassador in Kabul has brought back to Italy the Afghan personnel that has been interpreting & working at the Embassy. Hope not a single one has been left behind.
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