Berlusconi is back at Italy's helm

"Seen from abroad, the choice seems incomprehensible," writes Olivier Chavaz. "Berlusconi is a man of the past. His two stints in power brought absolutely nothing to the country. On the contrary, they contributed to driving the economic crisis a bit further in and in discrediting Italy on the international scene after so many bungles and ineptitudes. ... Today, Italian politics is on the road to 'Americanisation.' This evolution is deliberate. The right and the centre-left have together decided to end the rainbow coalitions as the sources of fragility. But neither of the poles has a real project. What good then comes from consenting to a bipartisan system that is nothing more than a concentration of power?"

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