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...election results were announced in the papers. I was shocked by what I read: The Lega Nord (the Northern League), a party whose platform is based on the federalization of Italy and has, at times, suggested that the north of Italy secede, managed to get 10 percent of the vote. I knew that the Lega made up part of the current government, but I had always thought that it was simply one of those flukes of a parliamentary system. (An attempt to build a coalition sometimes involves including tiny—and occasionally crazy—political parties...
...Suddenly, I wasn’t shocked, I was sick. How could it be that this clearly xenophobic party had won 10 percent of the vote? Some dismissed the ballots cast for the Lega as “protest votes,” but I don’t agree. Italy has plenty of tiny parties that those who feel disenfranchised could support instead of the Lega. Yet the suggestion that 10 percent of Italians are just plain racist also seems too simplistic. I have decided that my mission this summer is to understand what has happened in Italy?...
...indefinitely. Fernández's midterm defeat, says Corrales, may have leaders like Chávez "asking if they should ease up on their ideological hard line or ramp it up to neutralize opponents before it's too late." In Honduras, a coup on the day of the Argentine vote forced leftist President Manuel Zelaya into exile. Zelaya's foes accuse him of presidential overreach...
...taxes, to opposition leaders, who decried her efforts to nationalize private pension funds and her government's ties to a Venezuelan financial scandal. They also argued that Kirchner was still calling the shots from the presidential palace. Even her Vice President, Julio Cobos, last year cast the deciding Senate vote against her and for the farmers in a humiliating policy defeat...
...History has taught groups that represent people who have been exposed to radiation during French nuclear tests to be wary of any movement on the topic - and that suspicion remained strong going into Tuesday's vote. Despite its passage, Morin's text is only the latest of 18 similar plans introduced since 2002 that have outlined compensation for people exposed to the blasts. All of those previous plans eventually petered out. This time, Morin has minimized the number of victims he says will be covered by his bill as "several hundred" - an optimistic estimation, experts say, given...