Italy’s inconclusive election result means the country is in for weeks of frenetic backroom negotiations and haggling as parties seek to form a government.
With the anti-establishment Five Star Movement winning 32pc of the vote, the centre-Right coalition 36pc of the vote and the badly bruised centre-Left Democratic Party taking 19pc of the vote, no party or alliance achieved the 40pc necessary to form a government outright.
“We’re like Christopher Columbus, sailing into the open sea without any idea where we’re going,” said Giovanni Orsina, a leading political analyst from Luiss University in Rome. “Anything could happen.”
In such a fractured political landscape there are myriad possible outcomes,…
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