Alitalia at the heart of Italy's election campaign

Massimo Franco notes that the Air France-KLM bid to take over Italian airline Alitalia has suddenly become a central focus of the electoral campaign leading up to the legislative elections on April 13th and 14th. "For a long time the centre-right has magnified the Alitalia affair in order to attribute an umpteenth failure to the Prodi government. It wants to show Walter Veltroni with his back against the wall, having a hard time distinguishing himself from Prodi. ... The suspended negotiations are a blessing for Berlusconi's party, which is dragging Veltroni into Prodi's orbit and effacing the dividing line that the former mayor of Rome had high-lighted at the beginning of his electoral campaign".

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