Italy’s Left, in Regional Election Today, Hopes for a ‘Sardinia Effect’ After a Loss There for Giorgia Meloni
Beware the Ides of Abruzzo: the loss by a whisker of the prime minister’s candidate in Sardinia is raising hopes on the left that it could mark the beginning of the end of her conservative revolution.

Beware l’effetto Sardegna. Though it sounds like the title of an old Robert Ludlum paperback, the so-called “Sardinia effect” may be the harbinger of things to come — and a significant threat to the electoral supremacy of Italy’s center-right.
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