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Agreement on the left of them, agreement on the right of them

Repubblica reports that the centre-right coalition has reached agreement on future electoral system reform based around three key principles:

protection of bipolarism (as long as it’s not “forced”)
indication of each pre-electoral coalition’s prime ministerial candidate
“reasonable”  threshold for representation

Vannino Chiti, the man Prodi has charged with finding a solution to the parties’ competing preferences on this issues, […]

Posted 06 September 2007 † Chris § italy § electoral reform ‡ Comments (0)

Lieutenant Chiti

The ‘Bonsai’ column in Repubblica has, over the past few months, been painting a wonderful picture of Vannino Chiti - Minister in charge of relationships with Parliament - as a type of electoral Lieutenant Columbo. From Wikipedia:
Columbo’s signature technique was to exit the scene of an interview, invariably stopping in the doorway or returning a […]

Posted 24 April 2007 † Chris § italy § electoral reform ‡ Comments (1)