As the European Elections are approaching, Italy seems not to care so much about it. The media and the general public looks disinterested in European issues, preferring to talk about internal affairs and local issues.
This is amplified in cities where the day of the European Elections will be also a Provincial Elections day. In Milan, for example, on 6th and 7th June we will vote both for the EU Parliament as well as for the President of Milan’s Province and its Counsel.
Milan’s starting to be covered with political billboards, the vast majority of them focusing on the two main Provincial candidates. Another few are generic party ads, while at the moment no party or candidate has yet issued EU centered ads.
It will be interesting to follow the political campaign in the coming weeks, indeed casting votes for such a local administration in the same day of the EP elections pollutes the campaign.
Oddly enough, the center-right candidate to Milan’s Province presidency is MEP Guido Podestà, former Vice President of the EP!
If I feared national centered campaigns, now I feel like I was wrong. Maybe I’ll assist to local-centered campaigns.
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I’m seeing the same thing in Trento. There seems to be a local election every single month, and posters of local candidates everywhere. Even a friend of mine is running for local office!
But for the EU elections? Niente.
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