{"id":1241,"date":"2006-05-08T10:24:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T10:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/08\/confused-by-whats-been-going-on-in-italy\/"},"modified":"2006-11-28T14:08:03","modified_gmt":"2006-11-28T14:08:03","slug":"confused-by-whats-been-going-on-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2006\/05\/confused-by-whats-been-going-on-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Confused by what’s been going on in Italy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Same here. Luckily, The New York Review of Books has a handy overview<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“A close outcome was not only predictable but actually planned by Berlusconi during his government’s twilight as a way of lessening the impact of possible defeat. A few months before the election, Berlusconi studied polls that showed the center-left winning a substantial majority in parliament with the country’s winner-take-all electoral system. He decided to change the election system…” In a moment of candor, Berlusconi’s minister for reform, Roberto Calderoli admitted, ‘The election law? I wrote it, but it’s a porcata><\/em>,’ a vulgar term that roughly means ‘a piece of pig shit<\/em>.’ Clearly it was intended to make the country ungovernable for Prodi and his leftist coalition.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As the latest Italian elections (this time for president) get under way<\/a>, though Berlusconi may have finally resigned (if not actually conceded), the only thing that seems certain is that we haven’t seen the last of him…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Same here. Luckily, The New York Review of Books has a handy overview: “A close outcome was not only predictable but actually planned by Berlusconi during his government’s twilight as a way of lessening the impact of possible defeat. A … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-italy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}