{"id":30797,"date":"2018-10-26T18:14:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=30797"},"modified":"2018-10-26T18:14:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T12:44:57","slug":"populist-wave-on-the-italian-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/populist-wave-on-the-italian-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Populist wave: on the Italian elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/editorial\/populist-wave\/article22952352.ece\"><b>Populist wave: on the Italian elections<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Italians reject the mainstream parties, EU integration could take a hit<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What has happened?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the recently held national elections, Italians have supported populist parties that were once considered fringe<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The most likely result of the national election seemed either a win by the centre-right coalition headed by Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can also be a hung parliament in which populist parties \u2013 the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the xenophobic Northern League would have considerable influence in the creation of a new government.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ruling centre-left Democratic party has already admitted defeat after coming in third. The party has managed just 19% of the vote.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The largest vote share (32%) to a single party has gone to the Five Star Movement (M5S). <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The centre-right coalition, which includes the former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi\u2019s Forza Italia, the anti-migrant and Eurosceptic Lega and the far right Brothers of Italy, has secured 36%<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What inferences can be drawn from the Elections?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The election was a strong rejection of the incumbent, centre-left Democratic Party (PD)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a strong anti-establishment undercurrent, with the largest vote share to a single party going to the Five Star Movement (M5S)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given the recent changes in Italian electoral law, which now combines proportional representation and the first-past-the-post system, a party or coalition will need at least 40% of the vote to form the government. Therefore, it is unclear who would become the next Prime Minister of Italy<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Impact on the integration of EU<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Italy is going through a protracted period of political negotiations before a new government can start.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The M5S, which had initially said it would hold a referendum on the euro, more recently toned down its stance. However, it continues to seek greater economic freedom from Brussels.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has taken a strong stance against migration and says it wants to improve governance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Luigi Di Maio, a leader of the M5S, who for long had said the party would go it alone, is now seeking partners to form a government.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This could, for instance, mean the M5S partnering with the PD or the Lega.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barring a shared Euroscepticism, the M5S and the Lega mostly differ in their values.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An M5S-Lega government would severely hamper France and Germany\u2019s plans for greater integration across the EU.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Populist wave: on the Italian elections Context: As Italians reject the mainstream parties, EU integration could take a hit What has happened? In the recently held national elections, Italians have supported populist parties that were once considered fringe The most likely result of the national election seemed either a win by the centre-right coalition headed&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/populist-wave-on-the-italian-elections\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Populist wave: on the Italian elections<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704678999},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}