From: benoit@sirius.UVic.CA (Benoit de la Filolie)
Subject: Re: Important questions
Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 23:42:39 GMT

In article <1992Apr10.024043.10635@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, luciano@athos.Berkeley.EDU (Luciano Lavagno) writes:
|> In article <92100.005546FAFARDP@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>, FAFARDP@QUCDN.QueensU.CA
|> writes:
|> 
|> Note that I am not trying to defend such a vote, I am just trying to explain.
|> For the first time since WWII there was a party (well, a "federation" of
|> parties...) that:
|> 1) is not involved in a major way in the corrupt system "votes for favors"
|> (jobs, career, ...) that more or less controls Italy.
|> 2) is not communist (yes, many people would never vote for them,
|>                  even if they changed name).
                    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

|> 3) shouts loud enough and clear enough that it's time to be done with point (1)
|> above.
|> 
|> Nobody knows what will happen now. I don't think a backlash of xenophobia can
|> be either the motivation or a consequence of the success of the "Lega" (8.5 %
|> of the votes, and 20 % in some areas of the North).
|> One sure result is a change in the political equilibrium in Italy. Now maybe we
|> will have an electoral system that guarantees less fragmentation of the
|> political horizon.
|> So we would be able to change our ruling parties every once in a while, as
|> every democratic nation is supposed to do... Note: Italy, despite its
|> reputation abroad of having very unstable government has had a single, major
|> party in power, the Christian Democrats, since the end of the war. And the
|> current ruling coalition is probably about 20 years old (except for minor
|> readjustments).
|> Ciao !
|> Luciano
|> P.s. I append the latest election figures, from soc.culture.italian, as a
|> reference.
|> -- 
|> Luciano Lavagno    Dept of EECS, Univ of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
|> +1-510-642-5012    luciano@ic.Berkeley.EDU
|> 
|> SENATO
|> 
|> DC  	    27.3	-6.3
|> PSI 	    13.6	+2.7
|> PLI 	    2.8	    	+0.6
|> PSDI	    2.6	    	+0.2
|> PDS 	    17.0	] -6.3
|> Rif.Com.    6.5 	]   
|> MSI 	    6.5	    	 0.0
|> Lega	    8.2	    	+7.8
|> PRI 	    4.7	    	+0.9
|> Rete	    0.7	    	+0.7
|> Pannella    0.5	    	+0.5
|> Verdi	    3.1	    	+1.0
|> Referendum  1.0	    	+1.0
|> 
|> CAMERA
|> 
|> DC  	    29.7    	-4.6
|> PSI 	    13.6	-0.7
|> PLI 	    2.8	    	+0.7
|> PSDI	    2.7	    	-0.2
|> PDS 	    16.1    	] -6.6
|> Rif.Com.    5.6 	]   
|> MSI 	    5.4	    	-0.5
|> Lega	    8.7	    	+7.4
|> PRI 	    4.4	    	+0.7
|> Verdi	    2.8	    	+0.3
|> --------------------------------


Excuse my ignorance, but where is the communist party in this list ?
My second question is: Where is the Socialist Party (if any) ?

Thanks.

Benoit.

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