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Berlusconi: is Italy ashamed? (Part 2)

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So is it really the end of the road for Il Cavaliere? Silvio Berlusconi’s indictment on sex charges may be the last straw although François Picard’s panel points to a weak opposition and many in Italy who are indifferent to scandal in a country that’s home to one of the E.U.’s widest gender gaps.

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Berlusconi

by Anonyme - 19/02/2011 - 11:03

I wish that the international attention would focus on some of the fundamental reasons for Berlusconi's otherwise inexplicable hold on power. Italians do not cast votes for individual members of parliament, these people are presented to the voters in lists by each party and the party leaders determine who is seated to represent the Italian citizens. Thus, parliament is populated by those who owe nothing to the voters and everything to Berlusconi.
The Catholic Church continues to support Berlusconi and the reasons should be obvious: Berlusconi has reduced the taxes for the Church by billions of euro and Berlusconi has provided 480 million euro for Catholic schools by taking that much needed money from the terribly underfunded Italian public schools.
The least powerful in Italy are the voters.

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