More electoral reform in the air - this time not for national elections, but for next year’s European Parliament elections. Veltroni has come out in favour of a watered-down threshold of 3%, compared to the 5% originally proposed.
Why is Veltroni doing this? Presumably he wants to preserve those other opposition parties - the radical left, the UDC - in order to prevent the centre-right from gobbling up more space along the political spectrum. It seems pretty cautious, and also (implicitly) to assume that the PD faces strong limits to growth which would prevent it from mopping up votes that might otherwise go to the UDC and the radical left.
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I think that an Italian threshold for European Parliament elections has no democratic reasons. It is a shame that Veltroni (leader of the so-called Democratic Party) is proposing it.
Posted 22 Jul 2008 at 712 ¶Post a Comment