It seems that the current Berlusconi government won’t now carry on as it was.
If Berlusconi wants to stay in power, he can try and bring the UDC on board. But sa molto di Prima Repubblica, of the kinds of variable geometries that Berlusconi disdains and tried to make unconstitutional.
So it looks like dojero was [...]
Anyone know how much, as a percent, each party asks its deputies and senators to contribute to the party from their indennità? or how this is enforced? or if there’s a paper trial?
The LibCon coalition’s first mistake (excepting any original sin) seems to be requiring a supermajority of 55% for motions of no confidence motions of no confidence leading to dissolution. There’s already a protest group.
Andrew Rudalevige explains the significance of 55% very succinctly at the Monkey Cage. (I’m not aware of any other supermajority requirements in [...]
Geektastic discussion at PoliticsHome.
The election result in the UK was astonishingly close the results predicted by the BBC/Sky exit poll, with the Conservatives at 307, somewhat short of a majority.
I don’t know what this means for arcane debates about uniform versus proportional swing; the swings during the night were all over the place. It’s possible that uniform national [...]
Is here. It’s a Ford-Jennings-Pickup-Wlezien coproduction.
Okay, so uniform national swing doesn’t really work, but just to note that it’s possible to plug in numbers (33:32:26 LD:Con:Lab) from some recent polls, and have Lib Dem > Con > Lab in vote share, but Lab > Con > LibDem in seat share. Messy.