Just write «Giorgia» to vote Giorgia Meloni in the FdI lists and it will be sufficient to write «Elly» to give preference to Elena Ethel Schlein in those of the Democratic Party, even if for the Prime Minister it is an unprecedented thing not dictated by reasons of lexical complication or notoriety while for the secretary of the Democratic Party it had already been like this every time that her name it ended up on a ballot paper.
At this point, they argue maliciously on the side of those who have decided to keep the leaders out of the dispute, namely those of the old dioscuri of the yellow-green government (“Matteo”, i.e. Salvini, and “Giuseppe”, obviously Conte), better to adapt , rack your brains, find one attractive solution from the point of view of political marketing with the aim of protecting the big names on the list with M5S and Lega from the tragedy of contested preference or, worse, nothing, the result of misspelled surnames or of the confusion that reigns in the voter’s head as soon as he is left alone in the confines of the booth.
And so Roberto Vannacci could become «called General Vannacci», and therefore also just «general»; and, legitimate to dream, at this point the five-star candidate in the South Pasquale Tridico could aspire to be completed in «called INPS», by virtue of his certified experience as president of the national institute that provides pensions.
And to say that for decades, the story of the “so-called” candidates, and therefore of the valid preference even if not corresponding to the personal details, at a national level remained hanging on the case of schools, that is Pannella Giacinto known as «Marco», presented like this in dozens and dozens of electoral rounds. No one contested, on the contrary; the leader of the Radicals was so well known as «Marco» that even in the title of the song dedicated to him by Francesco De Gregori – Mr. Hood (to M., with autonomy) — the reference to Giacinto did not appear. The same goes for Craxi Benedetto known as «Bettino»For Craxi Vittorio known as «Bobo»for Lima Salvatore Achille Ettore known as «Salvo» and for the time that Gruber Dietlinde was nominated in the Uniti nell’Ulivo list at the 2004 European elections with the addition of that «called Lilli» which also made the vote for «Lilli» alone valid.
Then came the tricks, to extend the preferences of the old glories to new recruits, to steal votes from their opponents, to favor the flirtatious lists. The first hypothesis includes the very Sicilian cases of Cuffaro Ester known as «Totò» (like the former governor of the same name), by Caputo Mario known as «Salvino» (like his parliamentary brother), by Figuccia Sabrina known as «Angel» (also here like her father) who, however, being in turn «called Vincenzo», made his daughter a candidate on the Forza Italia lists for the 2017 Palermo municipal elections «called Angelo known as Vincenzo».
In the very early 2000s, inaugurated with the championships won by Lazio and Roma, in every electoral round in the capital the names of the most popular footballers ended up on the electoral lists without their knowledge. The case of. is famous Forza Roma list, who at the 2005 Regionals contributed with his 10,000 votes (another 3,200 came from the Avanti Lazio list) to the narrow victory of the centre-left candidate Piero Marrazzo over his rival Francesco Storace. The list included: Marchioni Giovanni known as «Totti» (268 preferences), Montella Guerino known as «Aeroplanino» (269), Cassano Stefano Ciro known as «Peter Pan» (104) and Mancini Gianfranco known as «Amantino» (20), just like the Brazilian who a year and a half earlier had decided a derby with a sensational back-heel goal.
In the last European elections, he received over 100 thousand votes Dino Giarrusso, to date the absolute record holder of preferences in the Five Star Movement. Also among the valid votes “Hyena”, given that on the list he was “called Hyena”, because he was a former member of the Mediaset programme. In Cologno they didn’t like it; in fact, they had invited him to put his uniform back in the wardrobe and not to use the name of the programme. Uselessly.
