Italian opposition makes gains in local elections

CNN Online ^ | May 28, 2007 | Silvia Aloisi

[avacado]

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's centre-right opposition made solid gains in local polls but Prime Minister Romano Prodi avoided a drubbing in his first major electoral test a year after taking office, according to provisional results on Monday.

Ten million people were eligible to vote in the elections on Sunday and Monday, with opinion polls suggesting six out of 10 Italians think Prodi's fractious centre-left government has not done a good job.

[avacado]

I post this only as an interesting note that the people of another European country are choosing center-right canidates. Now it's Italy, after France, and Germany, and I believe Sweden and the Netherlands.

[livius]

The right (PP- Conservative Party) also won in Spain yesterday.

[avacado]

Thanks for that bit of information! Good news indeed. A liberal friend told me the other day that the world is in an uproar over the USA. I told him he must have read some socialist poll or read asome liberal spoon feeding media source. Because... around the world, when the real people go out to vote, they are voting center-right and for candidates that openly support Bush. I then explained to him, “when people vote, that *IS* reality!”

[livius]

That’s true. I think many people in many places are beginning to examine the alternatives...and they’re also realizing that they were living in a fool’s paradise a few years ago when they voted for the left.