{"id":31949,"date":"2018-03-06T06:27:14","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T11:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31949"},"modified":"2018-03-06T06:28:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T11:28:57","slug":"italys-results-are-truly-forza-italia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=31949","title":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s Results are Truly Forza\u00a0Italia!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Italy\u2019s Results are Truly Forza\u00a0Italia!<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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Europe is headed for a breakup.\u00a0 But, after a year of watching the EU establishment work the polls just enough to maintain the status quo in the Netherlands, France and Germany I wasn\u2019t expecting much from yesterday\u2019s Italian elections.<\/p>\n

But with turnout over 73% we got just that.\u00a0 Voters were clearly motivated to change the course Italy is on.\u00a0 Now, we knew that Silvio Berlusconi\u2019s center-right coalition would do well alongside upstart Five Star Movement.<\/p>\n

The question was always going to be, however, how well would they do?<\/p>\n

It looks like it was much better than the polls wanted us to believe.\u00a0 \u00a0Last week I told you the markets were getting nervous<\/a> about this election.\u00a0 This weekend the news was all about how subdued the reaction was to the polling.<\/p>\n

As if a major technical breakout to the upside on Italian bond yields in the face of furious ECB buying wasn\u2019t a strong enough market response?<\/p>\n

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But, that\u2019s doesn\u2019t fit the plan to gaslight voters and traders to worry about the potential outcome here.<\/p>\n

The League of 5-Star Gentlemen<\/strong><\/p>\n

It looks like Five Start Movement will take more than 30% of the final tally, which is a couple of points above where polling had it tracking when the blackout went into effect two weeks ago.<\/p>\n

The bigger result is that of The League (formerly The Northern League) who came off their secessionist mountain and ran hard on a platform of euroskepticism and anti-immigration.<\/p>\n

The most important person in Italian politics right now is The League\u2019s leader, Matteo \u201cThe EU can go F&%k itself\u201d Salvini.<\/p>\n

When the final votes are revealed, if The League out-polled Silvio \u201cEstablishment Stalking Horse\u201d Berlusconi\u2019s Forza Italia! then he has the hammer in coalition negotiations.<\/p>\n

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Italy\u2019s Results are Truly Forza\u00a0Italia! Europe is headed for a breakup.\u00a0 But, after a year of watching the EU establishment work the polls just enough to maintain the status quo in the Netherlands, France and Germany I wasn\u2019t expecting much from yesterday\u2019s Italian elections. But with turnout over 73% we got just that.\u00a0 Voters were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[281,284,19090,1464,18032,16963],"class_list":["post-31949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-five-star-movement","tag-italy","tag-silvio-berlusconi","tag-tom-luongo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31952,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31949\/revisions\/31952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}