Tomorrow the polls close at 3pm on the elections for the mayor of Rome. The first round, which coincided with the vote in the general election that gave power to Berlusconi and the Northern Leagues, resulted in 46% for the Democratic Party's Rutelli, and 40% for the dyed-in-the-wool Fascist, Alemanno.
The Right is rallying to Alemanno, with a programme fired and enthused by anti- immigrant, large public works, lower taxes, and social housing policies. There is no explanation of how lower taxes can yield public works and council housing.
The Left, with its extreme edges fraying into grouplets and factions, its trotskyoids and greenery-yalleries, are threatening the Democratic, reasonable, moral governance of the city by their failure to support Rutelli in the first round, and 'demands' in the second.
It is hard to decide who is worse, between the two sets of extremists and authoritarians.
UPDATE
Alemanno has been elected mayor of Rome. So much for the Rainbow Left and their betrayal of decency in the name of ideological purity.
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Left and Right meet round the back.
It's more about social and cultural assertion than economics, or even taxation, S. It has often been discussed in Anglo-Italian chattering dinners whether England or Italy leads the way in taking up marked change. In this I fear it is Italy, but England will vote, too, on many of the issues campaigned for here.
I was thinking more about the attitude to using the fasces.
Your first post was prophetic. How did you know? Hope you made some money betting on the result, though a lot would be needed to compensate for the disaster.
A post-election poster, featured in today's papers, read thus:
Walter Veltroni
with his primaries caused the fall of Prodi's government,
with the political elections he ousted communists from Parliament,
nominating Rutelli he lost Rome:
WALTER SANTO SUBITO!
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