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Berlusconi master-minds right-left agreement in support of President Napolitano’s re-election
The leader of Italy's anti-establishment 5-Star Movement, Beppe Grillo, criticised the re-election of President Giorgio Napolitano as a desperate attempt to retain power by a discredited establishment. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWonder how long he'll last, he's already older than the Pope who stood down and if he serves a full term he'll be 94 at the end of it - surely too old. Either he'll die in office or have to stand down at some point on health? Probably a clever interim move though as this fixed term election happened to come at the worst possible time, with no government and little prospect of one. I thought Berlusconi might have got the presidency and Bersani the premiership in a grand coalition, though that might have been a step too far, even for the desperate Italian mainstream! Austerity continues to throw up political havoc...
Apr 22nd, 2013 - 11:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Berlusconi? Funny how Europeans talk about corruption in Latin America!
Apr 24th, 2013 - 01:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0#2 Indeed! And its funny how they insist that Cristina, still in her prime, must be banned from any possibility of running again for a four year tem; yet this guy, born before Margarer Thatcher, Marilyn Monroe, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Martin Luther King, gets nodded through for a 7 uear term, which if completed will take him almost to his 95th birthday, breaking the no-re-election unwritten rule of Italian politics in order to try to enable the election of a “stable” pro-austerity government...
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