The Berlusconi myth remains intact

Following the initiative of Silvio Berlusconi, a demonstration gathered together more than 700,000 people in Rome on Saturday, December 2nd, against the tax increase planned by the Prodi government. The editorialist Edmondo Berselli notes that the "eternal" Berlusoni has for the time being no successor on the right. "This has not been enough: despite the electoral defeat and the revolt of the Christian Democrats (who wish to restructure the Italian right), not to mention last week's physical lapse in Montecatini, the body and soul of Berlusoni are still very much there, pictures of charisma and power. The some 700,000 demonstrators of the centre-right are all his, they belong to him ... . On the Piazza San Giovanni, we could see a photo of the Italian right, a fixed image, not a film in motion; a pious image immortalising Saint Silvio, almost as if her were a martyr surrounded by a crowd of his followers".

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