The explosion of the Italian right

Silvio Berlusoni has created a fracture within his own camp by announcing the creation of his new party. Edmondo Berselli ponders the tumultuous events that have been affecting the Italian right over these past few days. "Gianfranco Fini [leader of the National Alliance], for whom Berlusconi's project is a mere media stunt, has thrown down the gauntlet on television... . The situation of the late centre right is spectacular. In Germany, this would be called 'Götterdämmerung', the Wagnerian Dusk of the Gods, which we would more prosaically call a wasteland. ... There is now a real conflict between Fini and Berlusconi. The explosive invention of the Italian People's Party for Freedom, the complete overhaul of Forza Italia [The right-wing coalition], the opting for proportional representation and the weakening of left-right divide is making it difficult for other parties to exist."

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