Category Archives: partito democratico

Partito Democratico voters want an alliance with IdV

Walter Veltroni has recently been getting pissed off with Italia dei Valori (IdV), accusing it of being responsible and ruining any possibility of an alliance. Apparently, his voters don’t see it that way. They most want an alliance with IdV, followed by an alliance with the Communists and Greens.
Unfortunately, there seems to have been no […]

Debate on the TV of the future at the Festa Democratica

To the Festa Democratica this evening to hear Giovanna Melandri [Partito Democratico], Claudio Petruccioli [Rai], Tom Mockridge [Sky Italia], Gina Nieri [Mediaset] and Giovanni Stella [La7] talk about the television of the future.
Petruccioli had two suggestions for Rai, but refused to go any further, pointedly noting that he’s already gone over his term as […]

Partito Democratico and Electoral Reform

Repubblica has an interesting series with Ilvo Diamanti asking candidates for the leadership of the Partito Democratico for their stance on a number of issues. Today’s is electoral reform. The three serious contenders - Bindi, Letta, Veltroni - each have a different stance. Bindi opts for the system before 2006, Letta for the German system, […]

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 […]