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A Democratic Party for Italy?

As their American brethren celebrate considerable success in the mid-term elections, Italy’s ‘Democrats’ - who so far only exist in theory - are having considerable difficulty forming a single party of the centre-left. Repubblica has run two articles in the past two days on the prospects of the Partito Democratico. They outline the positions of […]

Posted 08 November 2006 † Chris § partito democratico § democratici di sinistra § unione § prodi § vassallo § lerner § andreatta § ulivo ‡ Comments (0)

A single party of the (centre-)left?

According to SWG more than two-thirds of left-wing voters would look favourably upon the creation of a single left-wing party; the resulting party could reliably count on 31.5% of the electorate, roughly the same as the DS and Margherita polled in April. However, the result polled by the DS and Margherita represented a peak for […]

Posted 13 July 2006 † Chris § ds § italy ‡ Comments (0)