Italian elections picture thread

[Datajack Franit]

Auw c'mon, you forgot at least one very interesting candidate.*

Oh yeah I forgot the best



Vladimiro Guadagno/Vladimir Luxuria

Motto: Hit song "Give it, give it, give it away" ("it" is the arse)
Famous for: Having a tv fight with Alessandra Mussolini

AM: Mr.Guadagno (guadagno means income in Italian) had the only real income by candidating himself and getting a parliamentary check every month

VG/VL: Stop referring me as "him" if you don't mind. I have my identity

AM: He/she, I don't know how really am I supposed to talk about this guy

VG/VL: You can refer to me as "them" if you like it better. Of course fascists never change.

AM: Better to be a fascist rather than a ******

[Wernazuma III]

Even if you think both parties suck, I recommend to vote uliva. Even if it's simply for the fact that Berlusconi is disregarding any rule. The former member of P2 complaining to be surrounded by a communist conspiracy, poor baby.
He doesn't respect the institutions of the legal state, makes legislation for personal profit, all his statements show clearly that principles of democracy are something pretty alien to him. Berlusconi's psyche is almost a clone of Lukashenko's.

This is not a vote between right and left, this is a vote between democratic and autocratic mentality.

[VetLegion]

Jeez Wernezuma, you really have a thing against Berlusconi, the bolding and all

[Datajack Franit]

Oh I forgot the radicals:


Marco Pannella, RNP, Radical

Motto: No taliban, no vatican
Famous for: protesting by stopping drinking and eating for months, survives by drinking his own urine live on TV shows to get more support for his current protest (one every 6 months at least)










You know, the sad thing is that I'm not inventing or exagerrating anything. It's all as you can read on newspapers. What did we do wrong to deserve this?

[Gangerolf]

Electing Berlusconi?

That's like, worse than the Americans who re-elected Bush

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by VetLegion
Jeez Wernezuma, you really have a thing against Berlusconi, the bolding and all

A pcr is on its way.

[Wernazuma III]

Re: Italian elections picture thread

Originally posted by Datajack Franit


Francesco Rutelli, La Margherita, Liberal

Motto: "Berlusconi is a democratic threat"
Famous for: former mayor of Rome

If it's only for the motto and what the candidates are famous for, this seems to be the best choice. Unless having been "mayor of Rome" in Italy already says something about one's character (as in: mayor of Chicago).

[Barnabas]

There are 600.000 italians in Argentina, and of those more than 400.000 will vote, I think Brazila and USA have similar numbers.

[VetLegion]

It's terrible that they have a right to vote. Only people who actually live in the country should be allowed to vote.

[Footie Mad]

Alfonso Pecoraro Scanio, i Verdi, green-liberal

Motto: One people, one eyebrow.

[Provost Harrison]

Anyone noticed the resemblance (any Brits/Coronation Street people will get it)



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[notyoueither]

Originally posted by VetLegion
It's terrible that they have a right to vote. Only people who actually live in the country should be allowed to vote.

There was a report on the national news here the other night.

Not only are expats voting, but they have seats in both houses of the legislature. North America, South America, The Rest of Europe, the rest of the world... are each a district that sends MPs and senators (2 and 1 each) to Rome.

I thought the Yanks had a law against US citizens voting in foreign elections. I am positive they have a law against US citizens holding office in a foreign land. I'm thinking those aren't bad laws when this comes up.

[Vince278]

Originally posted by VetLegion
It's terrible that they have a right to vote. Only people who actually live in the country should be allowed to vote.

I agree.

Originally posted by notyoueither
I thought the Yanks had a law against US citizens voting in foreign elections. I am positive they have a law against US citizens holding office in a foreign land. I'm thinking those aren't bad laws when this comes up.

US citizens cannot vote or hold office in a foreign land but there are some who hold dual-citizenships so it is okay to vote but I believe they would still need to renounce the US side of their citizenships to hold office elsewhere.

[RGBVideo]

Vote the ***hole Berlusconi out of office already, his budget policies have and are severely hurting the whole Eurozone. I can't believe you're giving us the usual nerd-elitist "omg all parties suck so I'm prolly being a REBEL by not voting" -routine when one of the main candidates is Berlusconi and the other, well, is not.

[Sandman]

I've got a funny feeling they'll vote Berlusconi back in. In much the same way battered wives stick with their husbands.