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Do the different regions of Italy support different political parties?
How much influence does the "Mezzogiorno" have in Italian politics?
Could a Sicilian become Prime Minister?
Do the different regions of Italy support different political parties?
How much influence does the "Mezzogiorno" have in Italian politics?
Could a Sicilian become Prime Minister?
Each color is a different party voted for the parliament. Actually the situation is not so clear, it is quite difficult to see a precise pattern. For example green is for "Lega Nord" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lega_Nord ), and this party is took the majority of votes only in some areas of the north. The other really evident thing is the orange area over Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, who are usually for left parties.
The most votes for Berlusconi are from the areas of Northern Italy (without the main cities) and some parts of southern Italy. Bersani had more votes in the cities of Northern Italy, in the area Tuscany- Emilia Romagna and some parts of Southern Italy.
Generally political elections are a mess, and the difference of votes between the right and left winged parties is really little in most cases. So if you look at the map of another election it can look quite different.
About the provenience of our politician, I think that practically all the regions are represented.
It's impossible for a non-Italian to understand Italian politics, we have problems, let alone someone who can just read newspapers here and there.
As for the topic, generally Italy is a rather conservative country, although disaffection is very widespread.
Overall, it's Northern Italy to hold the biggest political weight: it's richer, more populous and vaster.
The main problem is that Italy is a VERY fragmented country with countless issues and divisions that inflame the political debate and influence the debate (such as the division North-South, autonomous regions, mafia, religion etc).
Do the different regions of Italy support different political parties?
How much influence does the "Mezzogiorno" have in Italian politics?
Could a Sicilian become Prime Minister?
The current President of the Italian Republic and his VP, the President of the Senate, are both Sicilian.
As for the regional voting patterns, the central regions of Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany and Umbria are known as the "red regions" as they have always been supporting the main left-wing party, now the Democratic Party. The northern regions of Lombardy and Veneto usually support the right-wing party of Lega Nord or Berlusconi's Forza Italia. The southern regions have no clear voting pattern.
Wouldn't vote for that party... Ok, agree with anti-establishment, it is Italy after all.
Beppe Grillo's party has some bizarre, ultra-leftist ideas, yet it is the only Italian party that focuses on politician honesty first and foremost, so that a politician is kicked out of the party as soon as there is even the slightest suspect of misconduct.
This is something never seen before in Italian politics.
And it might be enough to get my vote frankly, since so many politicians of the other parties are just creepy crooks.
Well, the city I live in has a tradition of being very left-wing. It is the city in which was founded the very first university in the whole world, and during the 70s it was kind of the center of Italian counter-culture. There are dozens of Social Centers all around the city, some of which are related to the ex- Communist party who has become the current PD (Renzi's party - center left).
Traditionally Emilia Romagna also had the so-called Emilian model, successful small industry with a nice welfare system, during the 60's-90's it was one of the wealthiest regions in Europe, let alone Italy. Now it is still good but obviously the system is partly dysfunctional. Most older people here always vote for the PD, it is kinda considered like the voice of reason, and the same people do not understand that younger people would not want to follow the party's instructions, because obviously younger left-wing people like me are not very excited by the PD in general, even if there is much worse.
Rome and Lazio in general are considered to be pretty right wing, borderline fascist. Fascists actually parade there from time to time, whereas here it is very limited.
I would say politics are very important in Italy in every day life, although they are also very hard to understand for a foreigner.
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