The will of Italian voters doesn't count

Italy's ruling party Popolo della Libertà (The People of Freedom) threatens to break up in two. The co-founder of the party, president of the chamber of deputies Gianfranco Fini, has menaced party leader Silvio Berlusconi with founding his own parliamentary faction. However the dispute ignores the interests of the voters, the liberal daily La Stampa writes: "It is a dramatic break full of bitterness in which shameless arguments are being used to hunt down the culprits. Following Fini's announcement that he would form his own party Berlusconi's loyal supporters warned every potential defector that in the likely case that the parliament was dissolved they would find themselves outside of it. ... If Fini does indeed manage to hustle together 50 MPs and 18 senators the government would be paralysed and Berlusconi's desire for new elections would grow stronger. The prime minister's big party building has a major crack in it. Without any regard for the voters who elected them to govern both parties are working on expanding the dispute."

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