| Is someone from Italy here, who can give his views on this? Tried to understand what's going on and this looks more like some scammy online lottery cashing in on some diffuse dissenting and secessionist moods, getting overexposed by Russian foreign news channels than anything resembling a proper referendum. It's nearly impossible to find some independent non-italian news-sources that not just reproduce the PR of the secessionists or RT "news". [All following sources are Italian so google translate is your friend] Found this video which seems to make fun of the foreign press thinking that good-who-knows-what happened in Italy (Like that guy who tries to sell the Trevi Fountain to some gullible American-Italian Tourist). [1] This one is quite sceptic and seems to paint the picture of this just an embellished online poll, pompously relabeled as "referendum", run by a local businessmen, Gianluca Busato, with connections to some fringe secessionist parties. [2] Even if this article written after the referendum ended strikes a different tone, the pictures and the crowd look quite orchestrated [3] After all this whole issue says more about the sorry state of journalism than about the actual likelihood of the Veneto region seceding from Italy any time soon. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptfhV3J3b1c [2] http://www.vice.com/it/read/indipendenza-veneto-referendum-m... [2 in proper english translation, worth a read] http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/veneto-would-like-to-be-italy... [3] http://www.vice.com/it/read/referendum-indipendenza-veneto-t... |