Land of Confusion
Continued confusion in Italy:
Temporary stands were erected in Rome’s Piazza del Popolo on Monday to celebrate Mr Prodi’s centre-left triumph foreshadowed both by opinion and exit polls. But the celebration was postponed.
Final results from the two-day vote indicated opposing factions will likely control the two houses of parliament, a recipe for political instability and paralysis that could force new elections.
The votes of Italians living outside Italy could be decisive for the Senate, but they were still not known last night. In the photo finish, Mr Prodi’s centre-left Union group won the House of Deputies. But the centre-right had one more seat in the Senate before the choice of the six senators elected outside Italy was known.
If the seven life senators, such as former prime minister Giulio Andreotti, exercise their right to vote, they could also change the balance of power in the Senate.
And Italy doesn’t even have a Florida.
“And Italy doesn’t even have a Florida.”
Heeeeeyyyy quit that!
Steve “hanging chad” Ducharme in Jacksonville.
Italy does have a tradition of changing its government more often than _________ changes ____________
(fill in the blanks of your choice, e.g. Madonna changes bed partners, Kerry changes positions.)
I’m surprised that Burlusconi lasted so long.
I bet many of the Italians outside of Italy are in Florida though. It is always Florida.
Italy has a Naples
Florida has a Naples
Coincidence? I think not.
Hey, we should be happy, I think Berlusconi’s the 1st PM to actually complete a term.
Only 60 years after WWII, but Italians take some things at a slower pace.
Actually, this is good. Stops the commies from outright takeover.
Florida has a Venice, a Florence, and a Naples but Rome is in Georgia.
A chaotic Italian election. What are the odds?
Italy and Florida are both big peninsulas. Has anyone ever seen them together?
There does seem to be some difficulties in elections and large peninsular communities (almost left out that second n in peninsular, that would have been embarrassing)
In otherwords, we can expect irregularities to arise in the upcoming Mexican elections surrounding the Baja California vote count.
(corruption in TJ, not possible, is it?)