M+KD+L+SD have nominated to keep the current Speaker (M) but have nominated to the 2nd Deputy Speaker position SD’s Julia Kronlid - a creationist & anti-abortionist … great!
They’ve nominated 8 SD politicians to fill functionary/procedural roles in the new Parliament (there are 30 to be filled; 16 go to the majority bloc, 14 to the opposition)
It remains to be seen whether M+KD+L+SD have any dissenting Parliamentarians that will vote against these nominations
Don’t suppose you’ve stumbled across any sort of demographic breakdown / analysis of the election results have you? I took some solace in 2017 and even 2019 in the UK by the fact that young people showed barely any support for the right (let alone far right), but think I read somewhere SD had received a lot of votes from this group this time round.
The BBC interviewed some Italians this morning, and every one of them described it as a centre-right coalition, but the news I’ve read says its a far-right coalition. Which is correct?
That’s what I thought, so either the BBC mistranslated everyone intentionally, or the political spectrums are viewed differently there to here. Gut feeling is its probably the former, but idk.
Come to think of it, sure I read a “she used to be a fascist but she’s not any more” article on there last week.
Berlusconi’s Forza Italia are referred to as centre right, but they are Berlusconi’s Forza Italia with an Italian flag as their logo, so I think you can probably deduce their actual political position from those details. Meloni’s Brothers of Italy are further right, and are the party who have surged. Salvini’s party are even further right still.