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It seems that the lecherous one has had enough.   For three weeks the entire PDL has concentrated its efforts on getting the criminal off the hook.  If they dedicated the same time and effort to the country, what a difference it would make – instead they have neglected their wlell paid jobs, and spent…

The old goat has given us 15 days.  If he is not given an amnesty, immunity or a grovelling apology within that time he is, by all accounts, to take his ball home and force elections in October with Marina at the helm, the idea being that he would win, and then go to prison.…

Now ex minister Bondi has declared that Italy could fall into civil war.   Can you imagine a country/political party that would instigate a civil war because a rich man siphoned off some payments through an offshore account?  Bondi is the ex minister for culture.  Under his tutelage Pompei started falling to bits, there were…

After all his fine words, the DOM is playing true to form.  He now is threatening to bring down the government if the President of Italy doesn’t give him ‘la grazia’ – the Italian equivalent of a royal pardon.   He has bleating about the 20 years of sacrifices he has made for his country…

The unearthly silence is self imposed – not a squeak from Berlo before the result ofhis appeal next week, and then all hell will break loose. If he is found guilty, then Italy will fall to bits – the right will scream commiefix and the left will ask how they can be in a coalition…

The Kazak affair gets filthier, while the entire government closes ranks.   We now know that the horde of police who arrived to arrest the wife and child of the Kazak dissident, was made up largely of Kazak secret service thugs.  Not only – one two occasions prior to the ‘arrest’ and subsequent deportation, the…

http://www.economist.com/blogs/charlemagne/2013/07/italian-politics-1 Nursultan Nazarbayev’s chum in Italy Jul 16th 2013, 11:56 by J.H. | ROME SILVIO BERLUSCONI’S party, the People of Freedom (PdL) movement, is beginning to discover the leverage it enjoys as part of a fragile government. Every time one of the PdL’s leaders is jeopardised, it threatens to walk out of Enrico Letta’s left-right coalition.…

SO Calderoli has apologised.  Very half heartedly.   It was, he says, an aesthetic judgement.  (WHich is now sexist too).   Maroni, the leader of the Lega and president of Lombardy says the case is closed.   The President of the Republic – Napolitano – deplores the ‘barbarianism’ of these people and the LEga attack…

It runs through Italy from the smallest comune to the house of commons.  The politicians spend their days huddled in cliques discussing politics.   Its largely the fault of the system, wherein you need various alliances to be able to do anything, but in Italy it has been taken to the ‘n’th level.  In my…