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In Italy's elections, the fascists did scarily well
Italy's elections may have ended in a political deadlock -- no one party or alliance gained the 40% necessary to have an absolute Parliamentary majority --
but the projected results of the vote signal that sweeping changes are on the horizon, changes that don't bode well for liberal democracy.
The governing center-left Democratic Party received just 19% of Italians' votes (a historic low)
while anti-EU, populist and far-right parties like the Five Star Movement
and the rabidly anti-immigrant League did very well (32% and 17.5%, respectively).
That former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his Forza Italia party (14%) are now seen as moderate shows
how far the country that had Western Europe's most robust political left for a century has shifted to the right.
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