Carfagna vs Vendola?

So much have been said about minister Mara Carfagna’s election with more than 55 thousand votes in Campania. Was it a personal success? Was it an appreciation for what she has done as minister? For sure it has been a remarkable result. Actually what did she do as a minster to gain such a consensus? Searching on the web you will hardly find an explanation. Neither on the Wikipedia page about her.

So what do all that votes mean?

If we look for example at Nichi Vendola we have a much more clear (sorry if you would have said ‘clearer’) explanation. He was the former president of Apulia, he won first the primary election within the centre-left against the will of party establishment and then was confirmed in the office with 67% of votes. So we can say that people of Apulia are happy with its performance.

So what? Sometimes election’s results mean reward for one’s performance and sometimes not.

And the winner is…?

It is quite funny how in Italy after election everybody uses to claim a victory. Sometimes it maybe ridiculous, sometimes just usual, and it is fair to say when it goes too far.

The simple arithmetic says that center-right held on the 2 regions it already had (Veneto and Lombardia), and took from the center left further 4 regions (Piemonte, Lazio, Campania and Calabria). As Financial Times said “the real winners were seen as the ‘no vote’ by a third of Italians who stayed away, and the anti-immigration Northern League, which is allied to Mr. Berlusconi.”

Something truly reasonable can be read here and here.