Italy gets interim government

Editorialist Massimo Giannini is satisfied with the decision that Italy's president has taken. "The Italian Republic is in the hands of a wise and competent president [Giorgio Napolitano]... The solution he has chosen to ease Italy out of an unprecedented, creeping crisis is a masterpiece of institional balance and political sense ... His mission remains difficult, even impossible. A government of reason that can, in a very short time, both convince the different political parties to approve a new electoral law and take urgent decisions is a distant, probably inattainable, illusion. At the moment this government of salvation would enjoy no visible parliamentary majority. ... But it is the duty of Marini [centre-left speaker of Senate] to try. And Napolitano has had the courage to show him the way."

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