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3 unusual facts about politics of Italy


Electoral district

Not all democratic political systems use separate districts to conduct elections; Israel, for instance, conducts parliamentary elections as a single, nationwide entity, while the 26 electoral districts of Italy and the 20 ones of Netherlands have a role in the actual election, but no role whatsoever in the division of the seats.

Louis A. DeSimone

John Cardinal Krol later named him coordinator of the Italian Earthquake Relief Fund for Friuli, his work for which earned him the Commendatore al Merito della Repubblica Italiana from the Italian government.

Treaty of Lisbon

A national ratification was completed and registered when the instruments of ratification were lodged with the government of Italy.


Melissa Panarello

In April 2006, she published a third book, titled In nome dell'amore (In the Name of Love), presented as an open letter to Camillo Ruini in which she accuses the Catholic Church of interfering in the Italian political scene and advocates secularism in the country.


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