signorotti delle tessere

English translation: party-card/membership-card chieftains

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Italian term or phrase:signorotti delle tessere
English translation:party-card/membership-card chieftains
Entered by: Therese Marshall

10:07 Mar 17, 2015
Italian to English translations [PRO]
Journalism / Book on interviews of foreign press correspondents on the subject of Italy
Italian term or phrase: signorotti delle tessere
Chi ha preso in mano le redini dell'Italia non sono più i geni alla Guglielmo Marconi ma i burocrati, i signorotti delle tessere, che si sono impossessati del tessuto produttivo e vi stanno attaccati come delle sanguisughe, con pesanti tassazioni e permessi difficilissimi da ottenere per intraprendere qualsiasi attività.

Here are we speaking of "trade-union" leaders? (tessere)...
Therese Marshall
Italy
Local time: 12:29
party-card/membership-card chieftains
Explanation:
... nice image, I think...

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Note added at 6 hrs (2015-03-17 17:00:56 GMT)
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No, no Therese, We're speaking about the "tessera del partito"
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Michael Korovkin
Italy
Local time: 12:29
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4party-card/membership-card chieftains
Michael Korovkin
3two-bit politicians
Fiona Grace Peterson


  

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two-bit politicians


Explanation:
Two-bit politicians, as in politicians not worth their salt.
Tessere = tessere politiche, dei partiti
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/two-bit

"I partiti strutturati sono scomparsi, non c’è più un sacrale primato della politica, non ci sono più i voti di preferenza coi signorotti delle tessere, non ci sono (quasi) più i politici professionisti e i parlamentari con l’orgoglio di esserlo, è cambiata l’immunità parlamentare, il sistema elettorale..."
http://www.ilpost.it/filippofacci/2011/02/10/che-anno-e/

Va bene tutto, ma che signorotti delle tessere lancino anatemi contro preferenze mi pare troppo. Tutti alibi. #noporcellum comunque e subito.
https://twitter.com/monicanardi/status/222069390257033218

Fiona Grace Peterson
Italy
Local time: 12:29
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
party-card/membership-card chieftains


Explanation:
... nice image, I think...

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Note added at 6 hrs (2015-03-17 17:00:56 GMT)
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No, no Therese, We're speaking about the "tessera del partito"

Michael Korovkin
Italy
Local time: 12:29
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Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 24
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