Italian Elections and Politics 2018: Yellow Tide

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

Italy has the latest poll closing anywhere in the world I think

Not quite sure why it has to be so late when France/Spain are 8pm, Germany 6pm (and Austria 5pm!)

Does anyone have links for Italian TV stations which won't be geoblocked? (ideally Italian TV not an English-language channel)

Thanks!

DC

Yeah, a poll closing time of 23:00 is absurd. Even 9pm or 10pm is too late.

The ideal opening times IMO are 8am to 5-6pm, so that the counting is done by 8-9pm and everyone can go to bed.

It's extremely idiotic to keep the polls open that long so that people have to count votes the whole night ...

the only place where closing times like that are places like America where election day isn't a federal holiday, so those working long hours can still vote.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

Hard to say who would form a coalition, at least a majority one. M5S is pretty much off the table for any coalition, since any coalition would include an establishment party. A grand coalition similar to Germany's would be extremely unstable, and the only other possibility I see is a minority government.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

Chances of Italeave happening with the current election results?

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

If PD does that they'll collapse extremely quickly.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

Decided to do a fully proportional thing. Keep in mind this was before the Italians Abroad votes came in, so it may be slightly different with them. I grouped together those on the far-left and far-right because idk.

Far-Left Bloc: 10 seats
For a Revolutionary Italy: 1 seat
Communist Party: 2 seats
Power to the People!: 7 seats

Free and Equal: 21 seats

Center-left coalition: 144 seats
SVP-PATT: 3 Seats
Popular civic list: 3 seats
Together: 4 seats
Europe+: 16 seats
Democratic Party: 118 seats

5 Star Movement: 206 seats

Other/unknown: 7 seats
Human Worth Party: 1 seat
10 times better: 1 seat
People of Family: 4 seats
Italian Republican Party-ALA: 1 seat


Center-right: 233 seats
Lega: 110 Seats
Forza Italia: 88 seats
Us with Italy: 8 seats
Brothers of Italy: 27 seats

Far-right bloc: 8 seats
Italy for Italians: 2 seats
CasaPound Italy: 6 seats


1 seat short, because of smaller party vote share. not sure who to give it to.

[GM Team Member and Deputy PPT WB]

Di Maio a few moments ago: "Talks with League are over; still deep differences with Democrats. Any discussion with Lega ends here. Salvini has condemned himself to irrelevance. Government with the CentreRight is no longer viable. I ask the PD to come to the table, not immediately to sign the contract but to check if there are the conditions to put it on its feet. If talks with PD fail, only alternative is a new election."