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.

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Prime Minister Meloni on April 27, 2023. Alberto Pezzali - WPA Pool/Getty Images

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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