vuoto di potere

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “vacuum of power”.

Noun

vuoto di potere m (plural vuoti di potere)

  1. (politics) power vacuum
    • 2020, Barack Obama, chapter 25, in Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, Giuseppe Maugeri, transl., Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:
      Se Mubarak si fosse dimesso, creando un improvviso vuoto di potere, molto probabilmente non sarebbero stati loro a riempirlo.
      If Mubarak stepped down, creating a sudden power vacuum, they weren't the ones most likely to fill it.
      (literally, “If Mubarak had resigned, creating a sudden power vacuum, it would very probably not have been them to fill it.”)
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