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" A Prime Minister with the balls "Berlusconi speaks ex cathedra in the Congress of the European People's Party.
Nothing surprised him more: startling statements, vulgarity, slander. Whatever you say, Silvio Berlusconi, is lost in the immensity of his previous utterances shocking, vulgar and slanderous. Abroad is high time that the Italian prime minister is not longer taken seriously. It is believed an eccentric policy, a clown. But almost nobody believes danger.
A particularly clear example of the above, we were offered Thursday in Bonn when he spoke at the Congress of the European People's Party. Berlusconi was making a speech. Among the audience sat some senior European countries with a conservative government. Even Angela Merkel, the German Federal Chancellor, was among them. It was therefore an official international context, who saw the presence of high-level characters. It was certainly not the stage of a program of cabaret.
Continuous coup words
Berlusconi began his speech, he told a self-deprecating jokes and made the audience laugh. And then she stuck with unprecedented violence power judiciary of his country. He stated that the judiciary would have crept men of the left and that it would overthrow him. The Constitutional Court, the Italian supreme court, was adopted by pluriaccusato premier of being a "political body". Would consist of three persons appointed by presidents who have left as their sole objective is to harass and prevent his government to govern. It is now time that he, Berlusconi, "the prime minister a strong and tough, with balls," as he described himself, changes the constitution to prevent a coup by the courts and to save the country. In other words
Berlusconi explained to his colleagues, European heads of state, that the separation of powers in democratic Italy is currently unbalanced, and now is forced to react. The audience in Bonn, it seems, was seized by an unfortunate embarrassment, such as frozen for those special words of Italian Prime Minister, on quell'incitamento against the institutions of the Republic. Probably some shook their heads - at least in their hearts. But no one wanted to comment on the speech by Berlusconi. Neither Merkel. Many international media who reported on the Congress have brought his joke, only that which is also indicative of how Berlusconi be underestimated.
The Italians elected him to three times
Abroad shrug their shoulders and usually it is argued that, after all, Italians elected him three times in the last fifteen years. And they did it despite the enormous conflict of economic and political interests, despite its reputation now compromised, despite the mysterious origin of his wealth, despite its refusal to defer to trial judges who want to prosecute, among other things, for corruption and false accounting (not as a politician but as a private citizen), despite the many laws made to avoid the ad hoc processes, despite a government budget unsatisfactory, despite some scandalous private lives that should have been horrified at least the Catholic electorate.
Faced with this argument is theoretically nothing to refute. Berlusconi is democratically elected. The percentage reaching his party in the coalition government is 30 percent. With the support of allies, this percentage is sufficient to constitute a large majority. But Berlusconi believes that he be allowed everything. Not only is this election, but also predestined and hailed as a savior, a messiah. Surrounded by court jesters and his personal claque. He leads his party without Congress. Treats its employees the same way as employees.
Now you can laugh over or look away embarrassed, as they do his fellow European leaders. Or one might ask, with a legitimate concern, as it is possible that there is a European prime minister who shows no respect for the rules of Western democracy.
In Italy two of its historic allies have now moved away from Berlusconi. First the Christian Democrats of Pier Ferdinando Casini, now the president of the Chamber of Deputies, the post-Fascist Gianfranco Fini. They will of course their political ambitions. The discontent, however, is the same. Fini said the prime minister will not tolerate objections and does not meet the guarantee institutions in the state. Fini should know better, since it's been since the beginning at his side. The much-avoided
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So Berlusconi is isolated and harassed in his own camp. It can only rely on his close entourage, those people who slavishly hailing reached the highest peaks of politics and for this I am eternally grateful to their leader. The Northern League return periodically to threaten to bring down Berlusconi. The allies do not agree, more of everything, as they did before.
The newspapers of the left talk about the impending "end of an era," the last hours of a faltering leader, the end of the Second Republic. Again! But Berlusconi considers the idea of \u200b\u200bforcing the country to early elections appear to people in the guise of martyrdom and persecution, to show everyone once again - to the left, right to the traitors, the whole world - that will at once free, he "strong, hard, with balls and with all billion of its power and its means of communication. And this happens in the middle of Europe. Do you think that all this is to be underestimated?
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