Brothers of Italy: it was not the elderly who made him win

The day after the victory of Giorgia Meloni at political elections 2022on social networks and beyond, various rumors have begun to circulate according to which the victory of Brothers of Italy at the polls would have been decreed by vote of the eldersin particular over 65. Above all, the video of the influencer has generated great controversy Giulia Torelli, known on the web as rockandfioccwho commented on the result of the vote as follows: “Why do old people have the right to vote? Why? They have already exercised it in their long, very long life. Enough, just vote. They know nothing, they have no idea, what they know they see on the news. They don’t even know what they are doing. And then these things happen. Old people don’t have to do anything, let alone vote. At home they have to stay still, motionless with those hands “.

Words that have raised the fuss, even more for Torelli’s specific weight in the digital world in which he can count more 230 thousand followers on Instagram. From many quarters the influencer was attacked and pilloried by the media. However, she is not alone in thinking this way: many users, in fact, in the days close to the vote spoke of their fears for the vote of the elderly, among those who took it with irony and those who considered it a real factor capable of move the needle of the electoral balance to the right. “I stayed at home for two years to save the elderly, who today repay me by voting for Meloni and Salvini”is the catchphrase that bounces here and there on Twitter and beyond.

The problem, however, is only alleged: polls on the electoral flows of research institutes disprove this type of theory. Two analyzes carried out in recent days by the Swg and Ixè institutes (also reported by The post), have tried to divide the Italian electorate into age groups, demonstrating that things are different.

What the analyzes say