As usual, in case of an election, I spent last weekend in my old school which hosted four polling stations. The last times I posted some of the children's works, but now it is more funny to show you the official poster with the 16 parties competing in Tuscany for 18 of 315 Senate seats. By the way, with a fifth of the population, Italy needs three times the senators of the United States...
The number of the lists increases to 19 on the poster for the election of 38 “deputati” (representatives) to our 630-member lower house. If you care to see even more of the 215 fancy party symbols registered with the Ministry of Interior, please check
this pdf file.
See also:
De Amicis School -
Inside De Amicis -
Friends Near and Far
External links:
Italy Votes for Chaos and the Euro Crisis Is Back (Bloomberg)
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How Beppe Grillo's social media politics took Italy by storm (The Guardian)
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Italy’s Political Mess: Why the Euro Debt Crisis Never Ended (Time)
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Ungovernability wins (Economist)
9 comments:
Well, VP, on the other hand, as you well know, we have only two parties here in the U.S. And from all I can tell, we're no better off (or worse) with two than if we had a thousand! What we need are statesmen, i.e. men and women who will put the common good ahead of their own or their party's.
That is some ballot.
We don't do much better...
Important moment there!
Léia
Incredible. Your photos really put your point across.
And I thought WE had too many candidates.
Thanks for those links. I'll have to read some and try to understand.
The Swedish system sounds a bit easier.
I've seen these posters on the Italian election news. We have 5 parties on the parliament, but the same two always take turns in the government... and look at us now!
I hope you voted for the BEST political party!:)
I'm glad that not only into my too much criticized country the situation is like that...I see readers of your blog from more countries, complaining. So, it's www!!!
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