“Italians want change and they want change now”

Steve Bannon has been in Italy witnessing the elections. Before his first public speech in Europe, in Zürich Switzerland, the former White House security advisor, analyzes the first results of the elections. He talks to Weltwoche foreign editor, Urs Gehriger.

Italians have voted, it’s the day after. What is the biggest take away from these elections for you?
Certain people in Italy think that these were just provincial elections, that their politics doesn’t mean anything on a global basis. They couldn’t be farther from the truth. This was an earthquake yesterday, this was even more stunning than I thought it was going to be, and that’s the reason I came over here, to really learn more. You could argue that the entire establishment, the populist vote or even people that tended toward populism is over 60/70 %. In particularly if you look where these parties came from, if you look at the size that the Five Star Movement was ...