Italian Elections and Politics 2018: Yellow Tide

[Tender Branson]

In Lega news, Matteo Salvini (slimy, racist, populist, anti-euro hack) won the party's leadership election with 82%, crushing the Old Leader Bossi. If someone had predicted this just two years ago...

That should be excellent news ... for establishing the far-right EAF (European Alliance for Freedom) group next year.

Salvini has a good relationship with Strache and his FPÖ and invited Strache to the Lega Nord party convention in 1 week.

[Tender Branson]

Question:

What's the LN polling right now ?

And what again is the threshold in the EU elections in Italy ?

[Senator Cris]

Turnout at 12.00: 980.000 voters (great result)

[Senator Cris]

Turnout at 12.00: 980.000 voters (great result)

The turnout at 12.00 should be of 1.100.000 voters.

[Antonio the Sixth]

What's the LN polling right now ?

Around 3-4%.

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Not sure, I'll look it up when I've time.

Turnout at 12.00: 980.000 voters (great result)

The turnout at 12.00 should be of 1.100.000 voters.

Awesome! What do you think will be the final turnout?

[Andrea]

Threshold for Euro elections is 4%

I went to vote to PD primary this afternoon and backed Civiti. I hope he can go above 15%

[Senator Cris]

Turnout at 12.00: 980.000 voters (great result)

The turnout at 12.00 should be of 1.100.000 voters.

Awesome! What do you think will be the final turnout?

2,5 mln - 2,9 mln

[Antonio the Sixth]

Threshold for Euro elections is 4%

I went to vote to PD primary this afternoon and backed Civiti. I hope he can go above 15%

*hughughug*

He will get 3 more votes from here, since I convinced all my family to vote for him.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Turnout at 12.00: 980.000 voters (great result)

The turnout at 12.00 should be of 1.100.000 voters.

Awesome! What do you think will be the final turnout?

2,5 mln - 2,9 mln

Wonderful! It's good to see so many people still haven't lost hope and are eager to make politics better.

[Senator Cris]

First results (from Renzi's website)

Renzi 160.757 votes (70%)
Cuperlo 41.175 votes (18%)
Civati 28.556 votes (12%)

[Senator Cris]

Renzi 339.334 - 70
Cuperlo 83.862 - 17%
Civati 61.989 - 13%

[Antonio the Sixth]

Where's he getting these numbers from?

[Senator Cris]

Where's he getting these numbers from?

From Renzi's website, but the Pd's website said:

30,2% reporting

Renzi 344.565 (68,4%)
Cuperlo 91.039 (18,1%)
Civati 67.833 (13,5%)

[Keystone Phil]

I knew I was forgetting something today!

So Renzi got a landslide. Yawn. Had no idea LN had a primary and that Bossi was running. What a great embarrassment for him.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Where's he getting these numbers from?

From Renzi's website, but the Pd's website said:

30,2% reporting

Renzi 344.565 (68,4%)
Cuperlo 91.039 (18,1%)
Civati 67.833 (13,5%)

Dominating.

[Senator Cris]

   
37,2% reporting

Renzi 468.321 (68,6%)
Cuperlo 121.466 (17,8%)
Civati 92.645 (13,6%)

[Keystone Phil]

Are you supporting NCD, Phil?

Most likely, yes.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Icing on the cake would be Civati pulling ahead of Cuperlo, though the gap seems a bit too wide to be bridged.

[Senator Cris]

48,1% reporting

Renzi 712.520 (68,5%)
Cuperlo 185.793 (17,9%)
Civati 142.276 (13,7%)

[SPQR]

Icing on the cake would be Civati pulling ahead of Cuperlo, though the gap seems a bit too wide to be bridged.

Oh would I have loved that! (I am a Renzi supporter)

Anyway,sweet day.
Until yesterday,we all thought that even 2 millions was an unrealistic threshold,given the fall in funding and in the number of voting spots.

[RogueBeaver]

 Splendid outcome for the party, and hopefully the country! So Letta remains PM till the next election, when Renzi runs as the PM candidate?

[Zanas]

Update :
Renzi 1,638,934 (67.8%)
Cuperlo 434,311 (18%)
Civati 344,526 (14.3%)

That's with 85% of stations scrutinized.

Final turnout estimated around 2.5 million.

[Antonio the Sixth]

No idea why it takes so long to count those 1000 precincts... But regardless, it's a wonderful victory, well beyond the wildest expectations. After waiting way too long, left-wingers finally woke up and told the old guard to go f**k themselves. Now it's time to try something new.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

I wasn't under the impression that Renzi was at all a left-winger within the context of PD.

[SPQR]

I wasn't under the impression that Renzi was at all a left-winger within the context of PD.

Left-wingers voted for him (his best results were in Emilia Romagna and Tuscany!) because they were sick of the old guard which has ruined the Italian left in the last 20 years or so.