Italian Parliament graphic, 1963-2018

9 comments

1. That’s how we like to roll

2. Nice, thank you!

3. !remindme 6 months

4. To tell you how instable Italian politics are: we’ve had 67 different cabinets in 76 years (1946-2022), about half of which didn’t make it over their first year; and only 6 lasted more than 2 years. That’s pretty jarring if you think that *ideally* the natural length of a cabinet is supposed to be about 5 years — paired with the legislature in force. No cabinet has ever managed to do so in the history of the Republic, but Berlusconi is the one who got the closest — he was president for a full legislature, from 2001 to 2006, although with two (not so) different cabinets.

   Spero di non aver detto sciocchezze, casomai mi corrigerete

5. I love how you translated parties’ names.

   BUT!

   Why didn’t you translated Forza Italia? WHY? ;(

   Please do something.

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   Good work, anyway.

   Edit: syntax

6. Woah, TIL only one party managed to have at least one seat in CD in all those years.

   Only one party survived the 1992 earthquake, the Berlusconi era, the populistic tsunami and stands still in the CD.

   **Sudtiroler Volkspartei.**

7. Why did you translate some of the party names?

   The Olive Tree? Come on (Italy).

   I think it would be best to leave them untranslated, otherwise you create false associations. The Italian Democratic Party is nothing like the Democrats in the US.

   At best you can indicate the European party they adhere to.

8. Thanks for the graphic!
   … but you choose the worst possible parliament, lol 😀

   Some parties are successors of previous ones (e.g.: Radicals/Lista Pannella -> More Europe).
   In some cases, these parties merge with other ones (Radicals + Democratic Socialists = Rose in the fist), then split again (no more rose, nor fist).
   By the same token, PD is de facto (if not de jure) the successor party of PDS/DS, and the two should be merged.

   But sometimes it’s hard to decide if two parties should be merged Example: MSI/AN. Probably need to be merged, as AN was a direct successor and even embedded MSI logo in its own.

   But then there is Brothers of Italy, which embedded both logos (AN+MSI), while being a splinter of AN. Should it also be merged with AN + MSI? Probably not, due to the loss in continuity caused by the famous “turning point of the footboard” (svolta del predellino), when FI e AN/MSI merged. Probably there is no single correct way to do what you tried to do :

9. Poi leggo di gente che dice che ci vuole esperienza in politica…