Fini won't change Italy

The President of the Italian Chamber of Deputies Gianfranco Fini has announced the end of the ruling PDL party which expelled him following vigorous disputes. But he has not broken his ties with Prime Minister Berlusconi, whom he has offered a pact that would last until the end of the current legislative period. In so doing he has wasted an important opportunity, writes the liberal Swiss daily Corriere del Ticino: "Gianfranco Fini concentrated in his speech solely on his own expulsion and his right to criticise within the party, with regard to the method of party leadership. ... Rather than talking about the birth of a new people of freedom Fini should have talked of the resurrection of Italy from the rubble under which it is buried. ... A speech which will probably lead to neither a rupture with Berlusconi nor a government crisis, but which fails to put an end to the crisis of 'Berlusconiism' and that of the entire country. In the end they will reach a compromise and everything will stay the same - according to the old method of announcing great changes so that nothing changes."

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