Alessandro Mencarini: It’s part of the movement to get a direct mandate from the electorate for an individual to act as president and prime minister, rather than leaving the election of both to parliament Everyone on the left disagrees, but fash-ionistas Meloni and Salvini love the idea

You should not package the elections of other countries as "lessons" for US voters. Shut the fuck up.

"How the US first-past-the-post two-party system with an electoral college is exactly like this multi-party parliamentary democracy with multiple runoff elections" and other things the brainworms whispered in my ear.

Semi-parliamentary, but aye.

France is a special little angel all in itself. The country closest to its particular constitutional order anywhere in the world is Ukraine, amusingly.

It's a very weird mode of governance that I don't entirely get and you need to go full Pepe Silvia on to truly understand because basically nobody besides those two does it.

Italy is moving in that direction too 🙃

There is never any need to imitate such a ridiculous system of government.

It’s part of the movement to get a direct mandate from the electorate for an individual to act as president and prime minister, rather than leaving the election of both to parliament Everyone on the left disagrees, but fash-ionistas Meloni and Salvini love the idea

Oh that's even worse. That's just a straight up presidential system

It’s still not fully clear what’s their desired end state. As we say in Italy, “poche idee e ben confuse” (few, properly muddy ideas)

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