More electoral reform in the air - this time not for national elections, but for next year’s European Parliament elections. Veltroni has come out in favour of a watered-down threshold of 3%, compared to the 5% originally proposed.
Why is Veltroni doing this? Presumably he wants to preserve those other opposition parties - the radical left, […]
There have been a number of stories recently - and some polling evidence - concerning Walter Veltroni’s leadership of the PD. I wouldn’t like to give an all-encompassing judgement, but he’s a short quote to show that on his favourite topics - cinema and communications - he was bang on the money. Speaking of Rai […]
Walter Veltroni has come out against nominating a new Rai board with the current law. Whilst one might disagree with the method found in the current law to appoint board members (seven of nine members by parliamentary committee, president plus one ordinary member by ministerial nomination subject to two-thirds majority in the same committee), it […]
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, […]
Perhaps the Berlusconi years made me lazy, but I’ve had to re-learn some cautionary principles of Italian politics:
the position of the government is not necessarily the same as the position of the parties that compose it;
the position of the government is not necessarily the same as the position of the largest party in the government;
the […]
