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The South and the political present. Campania election

of EMILIANA PISTIL

The short Easter break - dall'Erasmus and university life in general - this year is more folk. No, there are no special festivities in my small town bell, this year there are elections to (re) create the prodottino typical.

Political folk. With a clever interlocking of flights and trains I can be at my polling station two hours before the official closing, the last day to vote. In countries like mine there is nothing more fun than going to vote: professors who are on stand by to lend itself to political parties, businessmen and farmers who are the pr, candidates and then lacquered with attached big smiles. All of a sudden you become old friends. It seems to be one of those films of Don Camillo and Peppone.

This is also the south. In reality is nothing but the real stereotipicità South. That which does not respect the silence of the election on Saturday, what white suspects that positioned in certain parts end up being the most votes , that young voters are working from the first hair on the face, the one from kindergartens run by nuns puts the tips of votes in the backpacks of children. That's how winners are those who in previous years were sending text messages of congratulations to every festival, gave straight on the issues - even on the pages of a book - to study for a competition organized by the Municipality, chess and even those of some street in town is dedicated to his ancestors fascists.

In real time . In these paesoni body in the middle "button" of the Camorra, we are witnessing the slow evolution, gradually, surprising and sometimes disconcerting, technology arrives in town. Nothing less than that, gentlemen, this year the election was in real time on the site. "Net" of the City. Needless to hide the surprise: it is simply like to see appear for the first time a flower on a plant to be indistinct, anonymous in a corner of your garden, it's there since you were a child. In real time, in countries such as these, it means that the results do not you come to know from the Corriere di Caserta in the next day, and you will learn that not even Elder neighbor who - after a day at the bar, the school used as a front seat, see the elections as you look at the work in progress - you home and passes down the street shouting "we knew that guy won!".

Cam-only. In countries such as these, during the elections is that you realize how well organized crime were notified. Communication, one of the votes, runs on the latest mobile phones - a click in the voting booth and you're done - and slides on the Internet - such as meetings between the boss of the Camorra organized even email - but runs media with false references: Simulate the "famous" garbage crisis just weeks before the election, to make it disappear the day before the call to the polls, what if a non-verbal communication, almost tactile, sold for ecological operators' strike ?

Back to the Future. And here, the centuries-old Earth Laboris (have it brought her eh?), The problem gag, Santoro, Berlusconi appears to be a nullity. Turn on the TV after the elections and find a Porta a Porta again Pippo Baudo, Nancy Brilli, Ezio Greggio returning to Palare of 50 years of television seems heartening. See Annozero Ballarò and returning in pomp so glad. But after the elections, here on the front pages of local newspapers the faces slew of elected politicians or trumpet returns to be replaced by that of the fugitives, of those arrested, the killed. Last night in the main square was shot and seriously wounded a black man. Internet is fine, but to understand something here, you still need to wait for the next day's newspaper: the silence is valid for all elections.

Source: http://www.comuniclab.it/