Astensionismo a Nordest tra protesta e disillusione

In the last few years the Italian electoral abstention is growing up very quickly and in the North-east, even if the levels are particularly low, the increasing rate is (in relative terms) particularly high. The results presented in this paper are taken from a survey based on 510 open interviews to election abstainers from North-east (only voluntary abstention is considered in this research). The role of age is very important in understanding the reasons of the abstention choice: young abstainers want to take politics out of their lives and are definitely disinterested on elections’ results, while adult ones decide to abstain either because are tired and disappointed of politicians or to protest and communicate anger by means of a “no-communication”. In the analysis of the politic (auto)collocation of our respondents, we can see that the Center is close to Center-Right and far from Center-Left. This result confirms the existence of a problem of identity in the Center - Left. Lega Nord, Right and No-responses are in the area of general political system “no-acceptance” and on the same side of the No-Party answers.