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Would you vote for a political representative who never set a foot in Australia?

Infrastructure Minister Maurizio Lupi sits at the Lower House before announcing his resignation in Rome, Friday, March 20, 2015.

Infrastructure Minister Maurizio Lupi Source: ANSA

Living abroad is to be considered a fundamental condition for bringing the claims of Italians outside the national borders to the Italian Parliament? Here are our listeners' opinion.


While the next  elections in Italy are approaching, the country is drafting a new electoral law that has to fit a very divided political landscape. The Parliament recently passed a law proposal including an amendemment that would let Italian residents run for foreign districts for the first time. We asked our listeners how they felt at the idea of having a someone who never lived outside Italy as their representative in the Parliament.


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