So, it looks like Bersani has won the first battle in the race for leadership of the PD. The party has released the rough regional vote totals.
If the race between Bersani and Franceschini is a battle between the former Democratici di Sinistra and the Margherita (DL) respectively, then we should expect Bersani to do well [...]
So, I’ve been going on about who’s supporting who for the leadership of the PD, but I haven’t discussed logistics. Let’s do that now.
For those of you who are playing along at home, take a look at the party statute and the electoral rules agreed by the party leadership in June.
The election of the national [...]
I’ve been continuing my tally of endorsements of each of the three candidates for the leadership of the Partito Democratico. I’ve now matched them with information on each deputy’s past political experience — namely, the party they had previously run with prior to the merger of the Margherita (DL) and Democratici di Sinistra (DS). The [...]
The Italian Parliament annoys me tremendously. Not for substantial reasons (though it might also annoy me for that reason), but for technical reasons.
They have some nicely formatted XML files for the resoconti (minutes) of each parliamentary sitting.
But their voting information is stuck in crappy PDFs.
Grrr.
So, I have to
download all the PDF files using a horrible [...]
Whilst at APSA a friend asked who would win the PD leadership contest. I explained that I thought Franceschini would still squeak it, but that I didn’t have much hard evidence.
I’ve now found one voting-intention poll, which shows Bersani in front (54%), Franceschini trailing (35%), with Marino putting in a respectable showing (11%). The sample [...]