Venetians gave the cold shoulder to the fifth vote in 40 years to break away fro...
FILE PHOTO: People wade through a flooded St. Mark's Square during a period of seasonal high water in Venice, Italy, November 24, 2019. REUTERS/Manuel Silvestri/File Photo
By midday only 7.2% of 206,553 potential voters had showed up at the polls, woefully short of the 50% required by 2200 GMT for the referendum to be valid. The situation reversed in the following decades as new factories created jobs in Mestre while Venetians began to leave a city where life was rendered increasingly hard by mass tourism and frequent flooding.The latest vote comes soon after Venice was devastated by the second-highest flooding on record, prompting speculation in some quarters that the yes camp could draw strength from the argument that a more local administration would be better placed to solve Venice’s very specific problems.
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