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Sex sells as far right wins Uni election

A far Right student group has stormed to victory in Italy after pledging to fight for more student accommodation so students can have more sex.

The advert for the far right Unione Universitari (UV) taking part in student body elections at the Turin Politecnico Institute in Northern Italy showed a young couple having sex in their parents’ bed with the parents sleeping either side.  

The poster demands more student flats and cheaper rent, and has the caption: "Some people think that university students don't need their own space, ... we don't agree."  

Angry rivals who lost the election want it held again without the naked posters, but Fernando Moretti, a spokesman for the UV, said: "The election was won because of the ideas, not because of a hot poster.  

"The far right get a lot of criticism and we wanted to debunk the myth of nazi right wing losers. As this election shows, uncover us and you can see that our ideas are not so bad."

Austrian Times

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