Italians have voted overwhelmingly to give up nuclear energy

[NNN0LHI]

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/14_02.html

updated at 21:49 UTC, Jun

Italians have voted overwhelmingly to give up nuclear energy. The Italian interior ministry says more than 94 percent of votes cast were against domestic nuclear power generation.

With voter turnout exceeding the mandatory 50 percent required for a quorum, the referendum will be valid. snip

Italian media say the latest exit poll shows over 90 percent of the electorates voted against nuclear power.

[ClarkUSA]

1. Bravo! Now if only they will get rid of the racist plutocratic mafia thug that is their PM.

[suffragette]

5. They took a step toward that in the vote on multiple issues

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/13/berlusconi-nuclear-power

The anti-nuclear movement won a crushing victory in Italy on Monday when well over 90% of voters rejected Silvio Berlusconi's plans for a return to nuclear power generation.

The result represented an overwhelming setback for the prime minister, who had tried to thwart the outcome by discouraging Italians from taking part. The referendum needed a turnout of at least 50% to be binding. Interior ministry figures projections indicated that more than 57% of the electorate had taken part. Greenpeace called it a historic result. Quorums were also reached in three other referendums held simultaneously – the first time in 16 years that a quorum had been achieved in any referendum in Italy.

Official projections showed more than 95% of voters rejecting water privatisation and a law allowing Berlusconi and other ministers to cite government business as a reason for delaying trials in which they were defendants. The expected majority against nuclear power was 94%.

For the prime minister it represented a second, bitter setback in under two weeks. His government, which yokes his Freedom People movement to the regionalist and Islamophobic Northern League, first ran into serious trouble on 30 May when his candidate for mayor of Milan lost in a local election runoff. Milan is Berlusconi's home city and traditionally a weather-vane accurately pointing to Italy's future political direction.

[ClarkUSA]

11. Thanks for the info, but why is he is still in power despite everything he's done?

Italy's government is so dysfunctional that I shouldn't be really that surprised, I guess.

[suffragette]

12. I honestly don't know

though I'd wager being able to control most of the media there was a major factor.
And manipulating laws so as to avoid/delay trial was another - sounds like that one was taken away from him with this vote.

Bush/Cheney managed to pull off a similar trick here though.
Crimes too numerous to mention and Cheney even shot a man in the face and got the victim to apologize to him.

[Isabel7]

2. Italians voting against Nuclear

This is in the wake of Japan. This is bad for climate change. How many earthquakes do they have in Italy. Nuclear Power is safe and green. they are following the bad decision by the Germans.

[NNN0LHI]

3. Earthquakes?

I don't recall any earthquakes at Chernobyl or Three Mile Island.

Don

[Melissa G]

8. Safe and Green?

You must be kidding! How do you rectify nuclear waste storage and green?

[Kaleko]

10. Germans are on the cutting edge of developing energy alternatives

and have already installed huge wind farms in the Baltic Sea.

How do you figure that this is a bad decision?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. Yeah well, you just go and try to vote out their

nuclear families and see what happens. Godfather part 5 methinks.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Now if we could... Oh never mind

Democracy was a nice dream.

<----- cynic

[Melissa G]

7. The unrecs are out in force!

I wonder if we can use this data to track the paid nuclear trolls on site?
:shrug:

[rhett o rick]

9. American are getting lower and lower on the stupid scale. nm