8 marzo 2008

Whether seen from the left or the right little changes. There is  Silvio Berlusconi the nationalist (at least in his determination to keep Alitalia Italian), then there is the founder both of Publitalia [Italy’s leading advertising agency] and of its largest political party Forza Italia, who has ceased to sell miracles to the Italians. Then we have the bard of antideclinism who suddenly casts off the mantle of dreamer and puts on a pensive  visage (a bit like  Tremonti his onetime academic Finance Minister but without the cap and gown) to pronounce the word that dare not speak its name: crisis – a word both unpublishable and inexorable at the same time. Why does this mad desire of Cavaliere Berlusconi, found everywhere, not suffer counterattacks proportional to his gaffes? Why does one sense a happy ending for him both electorally and personally? Whether it be “a chimera” as Edmondo Berselli says in the centre left L’Expresso, or it be on the other hand “the ineluctable fruit of political maturity” as Alessandro Campi of the centre right Farefuturo Foundation says, the Berlusconian People of Freedom Party - just formed by uniting Forza Italia and the National Alliance - seems to enjoy a prosperity almost independent of the electoral campaign. The mere presence of the leader seems to be all that it needed. (translation by Richard Newbury)

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di Alessandro Giuli