Talk:2006 Italian presidential election

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The result of the debate was move. —Nightst a llion (?) 16:58, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Name of the article[edit]

I think the title is not in agreement with other Presidential elections:

etc Hektor 21:08, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The elections you presented as example are completely different; this is an election in which only the MPs have right to vote, and thus a notation like the ones above might even be thought as the President of the Italian Government election, that is the Italian general election, 2006. The current title has the good feature to make a strong distinction between President of the Republic and President of the Government. In Italy we don't vote for any of them, differently than the US, France and Russia, but just the parliament. --Angelo 21:12, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
- What about French presidential election, 1958 ? I am sorry that your argument does not seem very convincing. The French President is called President of the French Republic as well and the article is not called President of the French Republic election, 1958. I think wikipedia should have homogeneous naming convention. Hektor 21:23, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  - Italy is not a presidential republic, and the President of the Italian Republic is actually a very formal, powerless position, all of this differently than France. I think that a "Italian presidential election" article could deceive who does not know how the Italian Republic works. --Angelo 23:19, 8 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support. All elections are supposed to be at the same form: <country><type of election>, <year>. That is the agreed format used in 100s of pages. The powers of the presidency are irrelevant. (The Irish president has even less powers, yet Irish presidential elections, like presidential elections throughout the planet, are written in that form. If it is about the election of a president, then it goes under the agreed format <country><presidential election>, year, or if it is about a general election it goes in as <country> <general election>, <year> as in

It is the automatic format used on all election pages. This page was obviously named by someone who does not know the format used universally on WP and is clearly wrong. FearÉIREANN

\^(caint) 00:11, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Move to Italian presidential election, 2006. While I'm sensitive to arguments that its indirect nature might be grounds for deviating from current policy, I don't find them super-convincing, nor do I see how phrasing the office "President of the Italian Republic" makes it significantly less likely to be confused with the parliamentary elections. The precedent of German presidential election, 2004 seems convincing, also. The Tom 00:48, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support sounds fine. Gryffindor 19:55, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support same here. IThink4u 21:25, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Support it's a minor change, but it improves standardization CarrKnight 09:24, 11 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to speedy-move this. It's rather obvious this should follow the NC for election articles. —Nightst a llion (?) 16:58, 12 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Not a popular vote[edit]

The president of Italy is not elected by people, and the appointment by the parliament can't be seen as a "small election". Speaking about candidates is completely inappropriate: there are no nominations and nobody of the 11 presidents was "candidate" just the day before their election, nobody proposed himself in a public debate. Speaking of percentages of vote is also inappropriate: the Consitution asks for an absolute majority of votes. Napolitano was elected with the 55% (all potential votes must be counted, not only the votes effectively given), not with the 66%. The template was completely erroneous, being conceived for an election with candidates and popular votes: this is not the case.--80.180.48.13 (talk) 17:51, 28 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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