Saturday, March 22, 2014

Venice votes to secede from Italy as 89% of the city's residents opt to form a new independent state

Via LH

Residents of Venice have voted 89 per cent to leave Italy and become an independent state in protest at high taxes levied on the wealthy in order to prop up the poor and crime ridden Mezzogiorno south

Venetians have voted overwhelmingly for their own sovereign state in a ‘referendum’ on independence from Italy. 

Inspired by Scotland’s separatist ambitions, 89 per cent of the residents of the lagoon city and its surrounding area, opted to break away from Italy in an unofficial ballot.

The proposed ‘Repubblica Veneta’ would include the five million inhabitants of the Veneto region and could later expand to include parts of Lombardy, Trentino and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.

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