Chris Hanretty

'vannino chiti' Category

• Sep

  06

  2007

  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 in electoral reform, italy, vannino chiti by Chris

• Apr

  24

  2007

  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 in electoral reform, italy, vannino chiti by Chris