最近的意大利地方政府大选则堪称这种新生选举原动力所发出的一个信号：正是女性选票在米兰市长选举中把西尔维奥·贝卢斯科尼的政党拉了下台，要知道米兰一直以来都由贝氏控制（也是其权力的根源所在 ） 。
The results of Italy’s recent municipal elections could be a signal of an incipient electoral dynamic: it was women who voted Silvio Berlusconi’s party out of power in Milan, a city that he has long controlled (and the original seat of his power).