Repubblica gives some excellent reportage/hearsay which shows three things:
generally, preference voting is supported by parties with better grassroots organisation;
generally, preference voting is supported by non-leadership groups within parties;
specifically, in the Italian case, preference voting is supported by the non-Veltroni factions in the PD, and the AN within the PdL.
Of course the BBC won’t reveal details of its lobbying operations following a FOIA request. It’s a very buttoned-up organisation when it comes to dealing with government. More surprising is that they’re contracting out at all when, as Adrian Monck notes, they have their own public affairs department.
Poll shows that 71% of respondents are opposed to presidential nomination of the head of France Télévisions. 11% have no opinion; 18% agree with Sarkozy that it is “logical” that the state should name the head of a corporation it owns.
Unfortunately Le Parisien does not provide the text of the questions asked; Le Monde is [...]
Au delà des critiques sur la réforme en soi, c’est une réplique de M. Carolis – “lorsqu’on dit qu’il n’y a pas de différence entre la télévision de service public et les télévisions privées, je trouve cela faux, je trouve cela stupide, et je trouve cela profondément injuste” – qui a provoqué la fureur et [...]
Minister for Public Administration Renato Brunetta launched, a little over a month ago, what he called a ‘transparency operation‘. The idea is to publish online all the details for the personnel of public bodies, including contact details and rates of abstenteeism and other absences, so that Tizio or Caio (the Italian version of Smith or [...]