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25th April 2023

Question reblogged from Kontextmaschine with 9 notes

steampunkforever asked:

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?

kontextmaschine:

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.

Tagged: italia

  1. biopolitique said: No problems man. I also forgot to add that the cordon sanitaire at that time was around the communist PCI, not the PSI (which participated in several DC led governments and even led two under the centrist leadership of Bettino Craxi in the 1980s)
  2. kontextmaschine reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    @biopolitique said: The government party in Italy was not the PRI but the Catholic Church aligned Christian Democracy...
  3. 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)
  4. steampunkforever said: @kontextmaschine Maybe this is just Aldo Moro’s outsized influence but I was always led to believe that his assassination was a huge deal and deeply influenced Italian votes against the communists at the time. But this was also relayed to me by people who’re the Rai 2 version of CNN-brained terminally online people so take it with a grain of salt
  5. kontextmaschine said: @steampunkforever I mean, there WAS Propaganda Due, and the strategy of tension did come out of Italian tensions this was all deeply implicated in, but honestly that’s pretty peripheral
  6. steampunkforever said: I guess electoral meddling is the correct term for whatever was happening with Aldo moro’s death and it’s influence on parliamentary voting