{"id":350928,"date":"2018-03-05T22:54:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/italys-election-hands-power-back-to-electorate-to-dismay-of-eurocrats\/"},"modified":"2018-03-05T22:54:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T21:54:06","slug":"italys-election-hands-power-back-to-electorate-to-dismay-of-eurocrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/italys-election-hands-power-back-to-electorate-to-dismay-of-eurocrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s Election Hands Power Back to Electorate, to Dismay of Eurocrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>Eurosceptic parties who take a dim view of the EU, admire Brexit, and demand the real concerns of the voters are listened to are in a commanding position as the last ballot papers in the Italian Election are counted.<\/p>\n<p>The Five Star Movement and the Northern League made significant gains in the Italian general election, with a hung parliament now on the cards, political analysts have said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>PEOPLE POWER: Italy\u2019s election hands power back to electorate, to DISMAY of Eurocrats <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YCZH9kPZb6\">https:\/\/t.co\/YCZH9kPZb6<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Defend Europa (@DefendEvropa) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DefendEvropa\/status\/970681595760926721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 5, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a poll which is already being compared to the Brexit referendum and the 2016 election of Donald Trump in the United States, Five Star scooped 31 per cent of the vote.<\/p>\n<p>This means it will be the largest single party in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, the two chambers which together make up the Italian Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, in a development which surely rankles former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, his Forza Italia Party was outshone by controversial right-winger Matteo Salvini\u2019s Northern League.<\/p>\n<p>Together with two other parties, Brothers of Italy and Us with Italy, both Forza and the League are members of the Centre-right coalition which won a combined total of just over 37 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>However, the League took more than 18 per cent of the overall vote, compared with less than 14 per cent for Forza Italia.<\/p>\n<p>The election comes as a significant blow to Europhile parties, with the Centre-left coalition\u2019s share&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/people-power-italys-election-hands-power-back-to-electorate-to-dismay-of-eurocrats\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eurosceptic parties who take a dim view of the EU, admire Brexit, and demand the real concerns of the voters are listened to are in a commanding position as the last ballot papers in the Italian Election are counted. The Five Star Movement and the Northern League made significant gains in the Italian general election, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-350928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}