DES ELECTIONS LEGISLATIVES AU GOUVERNEMENT DE 'GRANDE COALITION': LA FRAGILISATION DES PARTIS POLITIQUES ITALIENS

In: Pôle sud: revue de science politique, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 113-126

Abstract

Thirteen months after succeeding Silvio Berlusconi at the Presidency of the Council, Mario Monti resigned 21 December 2012. Actively supported by the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, his government of 'technicians' did not survive the withdrawal of support of berlusconian Senators during a confidence vote on December 6, which has the effect of shortening the XVI legislature with early elections in two months set for 24 and 25 February 2013. The socio-economic crisis, scandals in series and breakthrough of the Movement 5 stars partial local elections in addition to the uncertainty that characterizes a political game whose polarization, very thrust between 1996 and 2008, is in decline. The offer electoral indeed will focus around four poles: the center-left Partito Democratico dominated by (PD), the center-right Berlusconi's PDL (Popolo della Liberta), the centredroit forms around Monti combining new party Scelta civica (SC), Unione di Centro (UDC) and Futuro e Liberta per l'Italia (FLI), and what appears as a radical novelty, the Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S) leads the satirist Beppe Grillo which is repugnant to position themselves on the left-right axis. Adapted from the source document.