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Invented story leads to real investigation

About two weeks ago, Enrico Deaglio alleged that the centre-right had attempted to steal the 2006 election by counting blank and invalid ballots as votes for the centre-right. Deaglio’s argument didn’t add up: the centre-right only had control over the projections at the Ministry of the Interior; the real votes were summed from the sub-totals […]

Posted 06 December 2006 † Chris § italy § deaglio § electoral ‡ Comments (0)

Administrative elections, 28th - 29th May

I waited for the paper editions of Repubblica and the Corriere della Sera to check out the results of the administrative elections held over the weekend. Headline results are this: in the five major contests, the centre-right won two (presidency of the Sicilian region retained by Toto Cuffaro; Letizia Moratti becomes mayor of Milan), the […]

Posted 31 May 2006 † Chris § italy ‡ Comments (0)