Thread by @alemannoEU

As Italians go to the polls, here’s 5 reasons these elections will be qualitatively different from previous ones, and highly consequential 🧵

(Spoiler: not for the reasons you’ve heard before) #ElezioniPolitiche2022 #ItalianElections

1. This is 1st time a majority of electorate votes for coalition so loose that nobody knows what it stands for : at home (social vs hawkish?),the EU (passive vs rebellious?) & internationally (pro vs anti Russia?).

2. The 1st RIGHT-Center coalition - made of Meloni, Berlusconi, Salvini (MBS!)- will grab a majority, without knowing yet how and for to use it. This is set to be left to day-to-day horse-trading, not to a well-defined coalition agreement #ElezioniPolitiche2022

3. Much of the lack of clarity of the right-center coalition has been made possible by the inability of the opposition to come together, thus pushing Meloni, Berlusconi & Salvini coalition to clarify their stance, be it domestically, the EU and internationally #ElezioniPolitiche

4.The so called third pole (made of the nascent liberals+former PM Renzi) emerges as not only the major enabler of the right-center coalition, but is also set to swing the balance (despite its limited electoral capital) #ElezioniPolitiche22

5.The democratic quality of electoral process will be scrutinized more than in the last due to:

- high rate of abstention (@Viminale)

- inability of mobile citizens to vote where they reside (@thegoodlobbyit)

- obstacles to register new parties @marcocappato #elezioni2022