L'Economist su Berlusconi: "Il ritorno del giullare"

[*sasha ITALIA*]

http://www.economist.com/world/europ...ry_id=11022014

comunisti comunisti!
Return of the jester


Will the last joke be on Silvio Berlusconi?

THE biggest risks for Silvio Berlusconi as Italy votes in general elections on April 13th and 14th are of his own creation. For ten weeks after the fall of Romano Prodi's government on January 24th, Italy's tycoon-politician managed to keep his more outrageous quips to himself. With economic indicators rapidly worsening, and Italy this year forecast once more to under-perform the rest of the European Union, few Italians are cheery.

Mr Berlusconi has played it safe and seems likely to become prime minister for the third time in 14 years. His People of Freedom movement was ahead in the polls when the last opinion survey was released on March 28th (Italian law bans publication of polls in the campaign's last fortnight).

Most of Mr Berlusconi's jests have been either silly (the claim that he spoke Latin well enough to have lunch with Julius Caesar) or sexist in a way that did not seem to damage him (his view that right-wing women were better-looking than lefties). But on April 8th, a more sinister side re-emerged when Mr Berlusconi said that state prosecutors, like those who have been chasing him through the courts since the early 1990s, should undergo periodic mental-health checks. His main rival, Walter Veltroni of the centre-left Democratic Party, demanded an assurance of Mr Berlusconi's loyalty to state institutions.


One interpretation—hardly a reassuring one—was that Mr Berlusconi was trying to divert attention from an even more alarming outburst from his ally, Umberto Bossi, the leader of the Northern League. He said his followers might take up arms over what he claimed was an attempt by the centre-left to confuse voters with overly complicated ballot papers. Mr Bossi's rhetorical excesses are legend and are usually discounted, but like Mr Berlusconi's, they send a subliminal message of indifference to Italian laws.

The irony is that the voting slips are, in fact, a product of legislation drafted by one of Mr Bossi's own deputies and pushed through by Mr Berlusconi's last government in 2005. Its author, Roberto Calderoli, unabashedly called it a porcata, roughly a “load of rubbish”. It encouraged political fragmentation and, although it allowed a clear majority in the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, it minimised the chances of a working coalition in the upper house, the Senate. Critics said Mr Berlusconi adopted the system because he knew he would lose the 2006 election, and wanted to undermine his successor.

If so, he succeeded. Mr Prodi's centre-left government struggled for two years with little or no majority. But having turned down an offer from Mr Veltroni to reform the electoral law, Mr Berlusconi, if he wins, could be hoist by his own porcata and preside over an equally unstable government.

[sander4]

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[-Feanor-]

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Qualcuno ci aiuti, AIUTO

purtroppo quoto
poveri noi..

[Cisto]

Most of Mr Berlusconi's jests have been either silly (the claim that he spoke Latin well enough to have lunch with Julius Caesar) or sexist in a way that did not seem to damage him (his view that right-wing women were better-looking than lefties).

Speravo che all'estero non lo fossero venuti a sapere

Cmq: Economist = bolshevik communist! (fa anche rima )

[dantes76]

THE EOMUNIST

[zuper]

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http://www.economist.com/world/europ...ry_id=11022014

comunisti comunisti!
Return of the jester


Will the last joke be on Silvio Berlusconi?




If so, he succeeded. Mr Prodi's centre-left government struggled for two years with little or no majority. But having turned down an offer from Mr Veltroni to reform the electoral law, Mr Berlusconi, if he wins, could be hoist by his own porcata and preside over an equally unstable government.

dear economist....

mi diresti come mai MR PRODI non ha cambiato la legge?

thanx for the answer

[dantes76]

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dear economist....

mi diresti come mai MR PRODI non ha cambiato la legge?

thanx for the answer

mi hai dato l'ennesimo motivo per votarlo...
invece io ti chiedo: coma Mr silvio l'ha fatta?

[zuper]

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mi hai dato l'ennesimo motivo per votarlo...
invece io ti chiedo: coma Mr silvio l'ha fatta?

guarda sto uscendo a cena

hai tutto il tempo per rispondere alla mia domanda, senza farne PRIMA una tua

poi quando rientro ti risponderò!!!

[dantes76]

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guarda sto uscendo a cena

hai tutto il tempo per rispondere alla mia domanda, senza farne PRIMA una tua

poi quando rientro ti risponderò!!!

ah figurati.. falla sta domanda

[Marko91]

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dear economist....

mi diresti come mai MR PRODI non ha cambiato la legge?

Non ci vuole un genio a capirlo. Il PD ha bisogno di una legge elettorale che penalizzi i piccoli partiti, partiti sui quali si fondava la vecchia coalizione di centro-sinistra. Prodi sapeva di non poter mettere le mani su quella legge senza capitolare.

[gretas]

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La colpa e' di chi ancora legittima certi nomi in barba a fatti scandalosi accertati.

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'Sti comunisti...

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[Ser21]

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[Cfranco]

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Invadeteci , esportate un po' di democrazia anche in Italia

[atinvidia284]

.....The irony is that the voting slips are, in fact, a product of legislation drafted by one of Mr Bossi's own deputies and pushed through by Mr Berlusconi's last government in 2005. Its author, Roberto Calderoli, unabashedly called it a porcata, roughly a “load of rubbish”. It encouraged political fragmentation and, although it allowed a clear majority in the lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, it minimised the chances of a working coalition in the upper house, the Senate. Critics said Mr Berlusconi adopted the system because he knew he would lose the 2006 election, and wanted to undermine his successor....

Sante parole,all'estero si domanderanno come mai un avversario che sa di perdere le elezioni dell'aprile 2006 (la nuova legge porcata elettorale esce fuori nel dicembre del 2005 a forza di voti della maggioranza) sia così cattivo da creare una legge che destabilizzasse (undermine his successor..) Prodi nella futura legislatura.
E ancora di più si domanderanno come possa ancora il giullare esistere ed essere vicino ad una nuova vittoria....Misteri Italiani,nelle migliori sale.

[^TiGeRShArK^]

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Invadeteci , esportate un po' di democrazia anche in Italia

shhh... che magari poi bush lo fa davvero...
Comunque secondo me c'è qualcosa che non va in questo forum...
Prima viene aperto un thread in cui si parla dell'abolizione del bollo auto da parte di Ilvio e poi dopo un paio di giorni Ilvio dice che lo abolisce veramente
Per me si è infiltrato tra di noi
...speriamo che non ci sia anche bush

[medicina]

"Private television is still dominated by Mr Berlusconi. He is still Italy's richest man, still beset by conflicts of interest, still unfit, even if he were a great reformer, to rule Italy. Italians should vote for Walter Veltroni, his opponent from the centre-left, instead. (gli italiani dovrebbero votare per Walter Veltroni, il suo oppositore di centrosinistra, invece)" http://www.economist.com/displaystor...ry_id=10966223

[^TiGeRShArK^]

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"Private television is still dominated by Mr Berlusconi. He is still Italy's richest man, still beset by conflicts of interest, still unfit, even if he were a great reformer, to rule Italy. Italians should vote for Walter Veltroni, his opponent from the centre-left, instead. (gli italiani dovrebbero votare per Walter Veltroni, il suo oppositore di centrosinistra, invece)" http://www.economist.com/displaystor...ry_id=10966223

ma anche mia nonna è meglio di lui..
non capisce un cazzo che non capisce un cazzo..
Ma almeno non va dicendo in giro che i mafiosi sono eroi

[Koji]

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Invadeteci , esportate un po' di democrazia anche in Italia

Only with bombs.