Berlusconi is back at Italy's helm

Umberto Bossi's North League made a spectacular advance in the Italian elections and will be a key partner for the new government. Journalist Gad Lerner reflects on this separatist and Europhobic victory. "The League's proletariat will celebrate 2008 as the year during which it definitively evicted the left from the world it was born in 150 years ago: the industrial north, its plains and valleys. Bossi has succeeded in conserving, even though he is sick and out of the media's attention, a mythical aura as founder of his people... . The League, doubling its support in Lombardy and Veneto, is the only party that develops around the theme of defending a territory. A territory famous for its unity, but also which needs protection when tentacles of globalisation threaten."

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