The far right can point to policy results which are a bit more concrete than anything the far left has to show for. In italy most of the campaign towards the end was purely on cultural issues and miloni spent most of the last two weeks of her campaign talking about an episode of pepper the pig where a lesbian couple was portrayed in rather innocuous terms. This is quite extraordinary because there's no response to this sort of impotent response from the centrist parties, says Pirelli.
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