Exit polls give Prodi resounding triumph 11 Apr 2006

[Lori Price CLG]

Exit polls give Prodi resounding triumph 11 Apr 2006 Voters have ousted the Prime Minister (and Bush troll), Silvio Berlusconi, in Italy's general election, giving the centre-left alliance of Romano Prodi a majority in both houses of parliament, according to exit polls. Senator Paolo Guzzanti of Mr Berlusconi's Forza Italia party conceded: "Our coalition has lost the elections." (We cannot count our chickens before the Berlusconi coup is hatched!)

Lori Price
http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

[marmar]

1. That seems to be at odds with what we're hearing...

Nutsosconi's coalition still has the Senate.

[Lori Price CLG]

3. Electronic 'voting' n/t

[stepnw1f]

2. Another Win for the Good Guys (nt)

[ECH1969]

4. Dude this was an article from this morning

[Lori Price CLG]

6. ? Did the Italy use electronic 'voting?' That could be why...

there is a discrepancy. The Guardian (London) reported Prodi won, earlier Monday.

Lori

[napi21]

5. I just received this in an email.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041006T.shtml

Exit Polls Show Italian Election Is Too Close to Call
By Ian Fisher
The New York Times

Monday 10 April 2006

Rome - Italy's elections narrowed this evening to a race too close to call, as projections showed Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi winning the upper chamber of parliament and in a tight race for the lower chamber.

Full results were not expected until late into the night, and possibly not until Tuesday, and neither Mr. Berlusconi nor his opponent, former Prime Minister Romano Prodi, made any public statements.

Is the info you have a much later report?

[Lorien]

7. Gee, doesn't that sound familiar?

Do they have exit polls in Italy?

Oh, yeah, they do...and the Bush troll WASN'T winning!

[Kagemusha]

8. They do, and for the first time, they have electronic tabulation

I don't know details of the latter.

But nothing will surprise me. Neither events nor what people say about those events here.

[Lori Price CLG]

10. That explains it! Thanks, Kagemusha! n/t

[napi21]

11. The last report I read was from a Chinese paper 8 mins. ago.

They are still saying it looks like Prodi won, but the results shouldn't be finalized until late Monday. The problem is, it already IS Tuesday AM in Italy!

I don't think we have any idea where this is going to end up.

[Lori Price CLG]

9. April 11, 2006 - 12:19AM (Reuters, Agence France-Presse)

If there is a Berlusconi coup, you can be sure the Whore York Times will be working hand-in-hand with Bush's trolls.

Lori Price

[cal04]

12. Prodi 'win' challenged

CENTRE-left leader Romano Prodi has claimed a knife-edge victory in Italy's general election, but Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's allies dispute the result and are demanding a "scrupulous" check of the count. Twelve hours after polling stations closed, Mr Prodi declared his broad coalition had secured a majority in both houses of parliament and promised to unify Italy after a divisive, acrimonious election campaign.

"We have won," he told flag-waving supporters who had waited until the early hours in a Rome square as the count ebbed and flowed in the closest election in modern Italian history. The centre-left said it was on course to win a one-seat majority in the upper house (Senate). In the lower house, official data showed Mr Prodi had taken 49.81 per cent of the vote to 49.74 per cent for Mr Berlusconi's House of Freedoms Alliance. Under Italy's new electoral system, the ballot winners are automatically granted 340 of the lower house's 630 seats no matter how small their margin of victory in the popular vote, with the runners-up getting 277 seats.

However, Mr Berlusconi's centre-right alliance contested Mr Prodi's claim of triumph, saying it wanted to check reports that half a million votes had been annulled."This is intolerable. What is this? A coup? It reminds me of South America. Auto proclamation (of victory) is constitutionally illegitimate," said Industry Minister Claudio Scajola, a member of Mr Berlusconi's Forza Italia (Go Italy) party.

The close race revealed deep splits in Italy and raised the spectre of chronic political instability in the months ahead.
Italy's two houses of parliament duplicate each other's functions and a government needs the support of both to take office and to pass laws. A one-seat majority in the Senate would leave Mr Prodi vulnerable to the demands of junior partners and would turn every vote into an effective confidence motion. "We were on a razor's edge, but in the end victory was ours and now it is time to turn the page," said Mr Prodi, who won a 1996 general election but only survived two years in office before being ousted by disgruntled communist allies.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,18781797-1702,00.html

[Lori Price CLG]

13. Prodi claims victory in Italy vote

Prodi claims victory in Italy vote 10 Apr 2006

Center-left leader Romano Prodi claimed a knife-edge victory in Italy's general election on Tuesday, but Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's allies disputed the result and demanded a "scrupulous" check of the count.

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Lori Price

[Moderator]

14. Locking

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