Politics from the Bottom
It’s Monday morning, about 3am. I can’t sleep, I know why. I turn on the television, looking for any news channel that it’s now owned or controlled by Berlusconi. I choose Rai News. The journalists are still receiving the results from the Italian minister of interior. I’m very interested to know the results of Milan. I want to know who will be the next major of Milan.
One week ago, the polls stated the win of the center-right and Berlusconi’s candidate, Letizia Moratti. But in this first turn, the candidate of the center-left coalition, Giuliano Pisapia, won. Although he didn’t get the 50% plus one of the votes, then in two weeks Milan’s citizens will vote again for the run-off turn.
Since 1993 the center-right governed Milan. Although lately Milan got some good news from New York Times that puts Milan in the list of "The 41 Places to Go in 2011", Milan is still looking for the right identity to approach this century.
What’s impressive in this election turn is the growing of the Movimento 5 Stelle. The 5 Stars Movement that was born and lives on the Internet. The leader is the comedian Beppe Grillo who has one of the most read and important blog in the world. "Beppe Grillo, a popular Italian comedian, actor, and political satirist, writes one of the few non-English language blogs that's become wildly popular worldwide." Time said.
In Milan, the 5 Stars Movement candidates as major a 20 years old guy and collects 3,2% of the votes. Mattia Calise, stated that they used about 7.000 Euros for all the electoral campaign. Nothing comparing to Berlusconi’s candidate that spent about 12 million of Euros, or the center-left candidate that spent about 1 million and half of Euros.
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