Re: rigging Japanese elections. I know part of Italy’s electoral rigging was the use of stay behind sleeper cells and funding terror groups as part of operation Gladio. Was there any equivalent for Japan?
That… was not electoral. Italian electoral rigging was about supporting the Republican Party (PRI), with an electoral base of the Catholic Church, as a second-largest after the union-aligned Socialist Party (PSI), with the system (and the 1871-unified Italy’s strong political regionalism) producing juuust enough eclectic small parties to be bribed or whipped into supporting fragile, frequently-collapsing PRI governments and maintaining cordon sanitaire against the PSI
@biopolitique said: The government party in Italy was not the PRI but the Catholic Church aligned Christian Democracy (DC), which remained in power uninterrupted from 1946 to 1981 and was still a major coalition partner in every government until Mani Pulite. If you take all 6 PMs who’ve led at least 4 or more different governments, 5 are from the DC (the last one being Berlusconi)
Aw man that’s right. I accept the correction with humility.