The BBC has been particularly quiet too, as have our own Remainers on Gransnet.
No, you just missed it. We had it on the Brexit thread yesterday. I posted a post from the 'other place' written by an expat living in Italy. Here is is again:
5 star aren’t the fascists, the natural heirs to the fascist party are Fratelli d’Italia. The Lega are anti- establishment, nationalists and anti immigration ( since they broadened out from just hating the South of Italy). 5 Star are anti establishment and anti corruption and for the moment no longer anti Europe. They have also proved to be shite governers of Rome where I live over the last few years so I have no faith in them doing better on a larger scale. The Lega and 5 Star have done the best in these elections and both are talking about their responsibility to govern but think any collation between them (which 5 star always swore they would never do with anyone until 5 mins ago!) would really antagonize the left of 5 star. The bots and the brexiteers have been out in force today trying to make this all about leading to the collapse of the EU. And the Anglophone press are spouting similar rubbish. Reminiscent of the French and Dutch elections -the pattern is if nothing else consistent. The only thing that seems clear at the moment is that PD and Renzi have had a shocker. The rest...what form a coalition will take or whether we go to the polls again remains to be seen.
It should also be noted that the extent of Italian Euroscepticism varies according to which of the UK newspapers you're reading. I think Leavers are reading far more into this election result than is likely as they desperately want another of the EU27 to join our national suicide pact. They've been disappointed so far with France, The Netherlands, Austria and Germany...
According to Reuters the 5Star party was moving away from Euroscepticism and, as far as I can see from their reports, they never proposed a referendum on leaving the EU, just on leaving the Euro.
This report is from December:
www.yahoo.com/news/italys-5-star-sheds-anti-eu-image-calls-180317607.html