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State funding of Italian parties

Recently, I’ve been looking at the system of state funding of Italian political parties. I’m interested in the subject because of the incentives it may create to form new parliamentary groups (since they qualify for funding), and the way funding systems interact with the new electoral system.
The history of state funding is pretty shabby. In […]

Posted 07 February 2007 † Chris § funding § party funding § italy ‡ Comments (1)

Marco Follini leaves the UDC

Marco Follini, former secretary of the UDC, has decided to leave the party, founding his own group, l’Italia del mezzo.
This was not unexpected - Follini had left his post as party secretary a while ago, and had carped about his party’s policy and Berlusconi’s leadership of the centre-right. What is surprising, at least to me, […]

Posted 18 October 2006 † Chris § follini § udc ‡ Comments (0)