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First news from the exit polls: Casa di Libertà has lost the elections to the centre-left, enchanted by the hope of the end of an era of Berlusconi… Friends are dancing and screaming (“Che tristezza”, Irene said yesterday, “the thought that i could be living under Berlusconi from my 23 till 33 years…”), and there are smiles of complicity when crossing certain people (how recognizable political orientations can be in bodies and gestures) in the streets.Political figures on T.V. spreak of prudence at this stage, these are only exit polls, but i feel we’ll be having a party tonight… |
Travelling from Bologna to Milano in some hours, from the Centre of the country where Unione seems to have won votes all over the place, to the North with its provinces (Lombardia, Veneto) where de Casa di libertà still won votes despite their loss in general. Wondering if the feeling will be different up North, wondering about the even greater political gap between the richer and more (post)industrial north and the rest of the country (although the Casa also won in some regions of the South, in Puglia, where we’ll be going in some days, and Sicilia).