Italians must get over Berlusconi

The Italian ruling party The People of Freedom failed to meet the registration deadline for regional elections in certain parts of the country and has therefore been excluded from the vote. In his blog Tempo Reale Vittorio Zucconi comments on the scuffle that broke out at a press conference held by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on the subject on Wednesday: "I am sure that this sequence will not be missing from future documentaries on Italy's Berlusconi years aimed at teaching our unbelieving and sceptical grandchildren about the fog that blinded Italians to such an extent that they were no longer capable of recognising even the most blatant facts. The scene featuring a hysterical prime minister and a wrestling defence minister who thinks he's a gorilla makes it clear that we have gone far beyond the limits of politics, ideology, mafia and trials ... and crossed into a Never Never land; a country full of aged Peter Pans with plastic faces, Tinkerbells, fairies and Captain Hooks that is beyond comprehension and out of which there is no way out but to wake up and go to the ballots!"

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