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First projections of EU Parliament election results (images2.imgbox.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Can we take a moment to consider that everything is the fault of the Italians. The Italians, and only the Italians:

Why the hell are your polling stations open until 23:00? Who the hell votes at that time? Is it one of those "not cappuccino after 11 -- no voting before dusk" kind of superstitions? You're the reason we don't have proper projections yet!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why the hell are your polling stations open until 23:00?

That's just barely in time to vote after dinner!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was just in Rome, and when I started getting hungry there was still an hour left until most restaurants even opened (19:30). Pure insanity to my Scandinavian habits.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I was in Stockholm and I felt horribly when I started feeling hungry and I noticed restaurants were already closing 😂

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Then vote after your morning espresso!

Or like me: Go to vote whenever, visit the Italian ice cream parlour on the way back.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You want to make it harder to vote just to get faster unofficial projections?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

We're already done counting. They're actively not updating the results because the Italians can't be bothered to vote during daytime. On a Sunday.

EDIT: State results are in. Well, almost completely.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Considering the next elections one should form a national party to expand pause times to multiple hours as well, so that we can bear 35 degree celcius in april 2029.

Either spains siesta approach or adapting italias layed-back attitude both sounds promising!!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago

Italy has taken in a lot of refugees and will thus probably have rather high right wing voter turnout.