Tuesday,
April 15, 2008
The
ANNOTICO Report
As
another Distorted View of Italy, (Ignorance or Intentional,) the International
Media has characterized the Italian voters as being paralyzed by indifference
and malaise.
Interestingly,
the turnout for this most recent national election in
The
turnout in the
ITALIAN ELECTIONS: AMATO,
HIGH TURNOUT, MORE THAN 80 PCT
"The turnout was over 80 pct. To be precise, it was 80.4 pct which is three and a half percent less that the last elections.
It is a high turnout, much higher than the average turn out in general election". The Italian Home Office Minister, Giuliano Amato went to the press conference room at the Senate "excusing himself" in from of the journalists because of the delay in the definitive statistics on the election and the figures showing turnout of voters,"We had to wait for a few definitive figures regarding five large cities which were Milan, Florence, Rome, Naples and Palermo.
Considering the number of
voters who turned up, it was wiser to wait". (at
the statistics concerning only two polling areas are missing of a possible
8.101). For Amato, that 80 pct turnout would be considered "a symbolic
piece of information, a bit like the price of consumer goods. There are regions
in which turnout was lower, in well-known regions for low turnout such as
In
If I simplified this I could make the assumption that the electors expect to vote every 5 years and instead we have forced them to vote after two: this could be one of the reasons which forced many people to go to the voting booths".
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