Public opinion has moved very quickly there against Italy:
Veneto – IPR poll:
63% against secession from Italy
28% in favour
8% in favour as part of broader Northern #Italy (“Padania”)
— electionista (@electionista) April 4, 2014
UPDATE: I misread the poll. These numbers are consistent with what we have seen in the past: a solid majority against independence.
UPDATE 2: Italian police have also arrested 24 Venetian secessionists on charges of “terrorism,” that is, George Washington-style rebellion. Italy is one of the cases I discuss in my book as being at higher risk of secessionist violence than Scotland, Wales, Puerto Rico, the Faroes, Quebec, or Flanders, because unlike these others it has no legal means for secession.
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