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.