PD suffers another debacle in local election runoffs

ANSA) - Rome, June 25 - The Democratic Party (PD) is again reflecting on how to turn around its fortunes after suffering another debacle in a round of runoff ballots for local elections in many Italian cities on Sunday. The centre-left lost traditional strongholds such as Massa, Pisa, Siena and Terni, as well as Ivrea, near Turin, which it had governed continuously since the Second World War. The PD slumped to its worst-ever showing in March's general election. The big winner on Sunday was the centre right, with hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's League again the driving force. The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), which is in government at the national level with the League but ran alone in the local elections, won the runoffs in Avellino and Imola, but lost control of Ragusa.

with hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini's League again the driving force

I hate to break it to the liberal media, but if a party or candidate wins election after election, even in traditionally liberal areas, they aren't "hardline." They are mainstream. Salvani's positions accurately reflect the majority of Italians, he's not the rightwing lunatic that the press wants to make him out to be.

2 posted on 06/25/2018 4:12:46 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)

The problem with journos all over the globe is they take John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice as some form of Platonic form as ignore the fact that reality is dynamic. They haven’t updated their concept of reality since sophomore year college. And it shows.

This is how leftists operate, though. They keep marching farther left but still call their positions moderate or mainstream. Anything else they call hard right and extreme. They are masters at manipulating the language. For example, they have most media people saying undocumented immigrants, or even just immigrants, instead of illegal aliens, and they are not pro-abortion, they are pro-choice.

4 posted on 06/25/2018 5:06:20 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (".... and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed." Acts 13:48)

They should have insisted that the ballots be printed in Arabic like the DemonRATs insist that ours be printed in Spanish.

These elections are like the old famous ad, “They’re a spicy meatsaball”.

Congratulations to the Italians!!

Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Austria.

Need 3 or 4 more, the Netherlands would be nice, and we might finally see and end to the disastrous EU which is the primary power behind global leftism.

9 posted on 06/26/2018 2:48:28 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)

And their choice of words - actually their deliberate prejudice and restrictions on words and actions - betrays their preference FOR dictatorship.

10 posted on 06/26/2018 4:26:19 AM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)

Thanks Robert A Cook PE.

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11 posted on 06/26/2018 1:00:28 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)

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