THE INVESTIGATION The Cmr laboratory of sociologist Marini analyses the proximity of north-easterners to the electoral challenge: it is above all the”moderates from the centre” who identify themselves the least
The vote? Young people and housewives decisive
It is they, together with those with low educational qualifications, who are the most “negotiating” who feel detached from the parties but choose from time to time according to proposals
"The key word is uncertainty: the climate in the parties is a promise market and voters are insecure"
Elections are coming, and in the North-East the detachment from politics is decreasing. But not that from the parties. "Rather, there is a growing “disenchanted closeness” and, above all, a bargaining attitude towards the political offer," emphasises sociologist Daniele Marini, director of Community Media Research, which edited the new research in collaboration with Intesa Sanpaolo – Cassa di risparmio del Veneto. And all this translates into one word: uncertainty. 'There is a politics of uncertainty and an’uncertainty towards politics,' Marini observes. In fact, politics faces the vote with a tri-polarity that could struggle to then deliver a government to the country with the probable need for 'at least two poles to come to an agreement', even if everyone denies it. On the programmes, then, 'precisely in order to try to attract a disaffected electorate, a real “market of promises” a sort of electoral bazaar has been generated'.
