Italians are thrust back into political incertitude

Ezio Mauro, the daily's editor in chief, comments on the resignation of Romano Prodi. "This is a strange and unfair fate for a man who twice defeated [Silvio] Berlusconi and who twice had to leave power because of the dissolution of his majority. This is not just the end of a government and a period in power; it is a whole political culture, the centre-left, which is coming to an end. ... Prodi died on the right, but he suffered two years on the left. His dream of uniting Italy's two left-wings -reformists and radicals- of combining justice, solidarity and innovation did work at times, but was never a real political culture, recognised and recognisable. ... Prodi had to deal with interior conflicts -threats, blackmail, and vetoes -instead of governing. We heard a thousand voices, but never that of the centre-left."

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