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Image: Jeremy Corbyn Graffiti, England
Image: Jeremy Corbyn Graffiti, England

Labour conference 2018

Ellie Mae O'Hagan
Elections and parties
A step towards a new political consensusLiverpool, England’s northern city famous for football, the Beatles and its notoriously quick-witted citizens, is always at its loveliest in Autumn. And it is against the backdrop of cinereal September clouds that 13,400 people decamped to the city’s docks for five days to take part in the Labour Party conference, where they would subsist on a cyclical diet of warm white wine, black coffee, composite motions and political debate.This conference hashed out policies on a massive range of issues: the party pledged to prevent the ...
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Image: cristian, italian election / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 [creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/]
Image: cristian, italian election / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 [creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/]

Italy: the electoral tsunami and the neoliberal spell

Beppe Caccia
Elections and parties
A total anomaly or a revealing laboratory? In order to understand the results of the Italian general elections of 4 March 2018, to grasp the current situation and to outline future scenarios, we first have to take into account what happened over the past seven years and the reform of the electoral law that preceded the vote. The electoral law reform and the defeat of the "Establishment Party" The new law, approved in November 2017, is a majoritarian-proportional mixed system, which currently provides a share (about 35 percent) of elected ...
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