Election Update

Italian politics is love. It tends to be much more exciting than American politics, although even they are headed in that direction... Stable governments, what? A country equally divided between left and right, what? A bad economy, what?
Sunday and Monday there were elections for the city of Rome, and Walter Veltroni was reelected. 921,491 Romans voted for Veltroni, which is more than 100,000 more than voted for him five years ago when he was first elected. His approval rating right now is over 60%.
Additionally, there were elections for the city council. There are 19 districts, even though I live in XX Municipio, because the XIV Municipio does not actually exist. All of the districts, except one are represented by the center-left. And what is the only district that is represented by the right (Casa della Libertà)? Yes! XX Municipio Cassia-Primaporta. However, the guy won by only 35 votes (50.5% of the votes were to him) Fulvia said.
At the end of the month, there's another election, because the Fascists want to change the constitution. It's really important to vote, because as Fulvia explained, if 20 people vote, and 11 vote for this change, then some horrible change to the constitution will be made. It seems to be something introduced by Berlusconi et. al. to give more power to the regions and comune. However, the left sees this as an affront to bicameralism and thinks it will take away the power from the national governing bodies. I should find more out about it. Upon cursory research, it appears that the Constitution changes often (take that, Scalia!) and is "per peggiore" depending on who's making the change (left or right) and what side one stands on.
Past changes from the right have come back to hurt them and actually favor the left -- this happened multiple times during Berlusconi's tenure. One notable example is the giving of the vote to Italians abroad. Berlusconi thought it would give him an advantage, but in fact, it did not (anche noi siamo coglione).
Alas. Italian politics is such a nice hobby, because it's so incredibly interestingly complicated. If only American politics excited me this much. I think for a time I was interested in politics in America only because I remembered how exciting they were here. It's so much easier to be involved in them here.