The big problem/opportunity: half of Italians don’t trust the EU, but no one has the courage to represent them
Practically half of Italians have no political representation, and the data comes directly from a champion of Europeanism, the Corriere della Sera.
According to the newspaper, which reports an IPSOS poll by Pagnoncelli, 48% of Italians do not have confidence in the EU, while only 39% have a favorable position towards the Union.
This is a very high percentage of disheartened people who reach:
- 58% of those who voted FdI
- 55% among M5s voters
- 50% among non-voters and Lega voters
- 46% of voters from other lists (which includes both +Euroa, the Greens and also the small anti-EU lists).
Officially none of the parties represented in parliament have anti-EU positions. Beyond the PD, which also appears in the survey to be the only super-Europeanist party, consistent with its electorate, after 2019 no party has had the courage to take a strong position against the EU. At most there were some nuances, but Meloni also said clearly that there is no possibility of leaving the EU, which is a bit in contradiction with the feelings of her electorate.
Why then do skeptical Euro parties remain at low percentages, irrelevant? Because the large portion of the electorate does not seem satisfied with their political offer and stays at home. Evidently something is missing in terms of politicians' personal communication, so people who would vote for them stay at home.
Then there is the mystery of the M5s which however has one of the highest percentages of Eurosceptics and the management is instead super Euroconfident. A beautiful mystery that will be solved sooner or later.
What will happen in the future? Given that the economic crisis looms and is accompanied by the migration crisis, trust in the EU will hardly increase. Among other things, if you read the subsequent answers, the majority would also expect a reform of the stability pact which is now at sea and unlikely to be completed.
If politicians are interested in electoral marketing they should try to better represent this half of Eurosceptic Italians. Otherwise they can also do as they do now and not care and increase abstention, hoping that a figure capable of uniting the other side will never appear. Because if that happened, there would be big trouble.
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