Word: berlusconi
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Romano Prodi, a former visiting professor at Harvard, defeated billionaire Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi by a close margin in this week’s Italian parliamentary elections...
Though the Interior Ministry has approved vote totals, Italy’s highest court must still confirm the results, and Berlusconi has already called for a recount of the Chamber of Deputies votes...
...Nobody now can say they have won,” Berlusconi said...
...party was just in time for newspapers to make their deadlines and TV cameras to capture the images, which the Berlusconi-owned TG5 news program broadcast live, and replayed the morning after. All of the hoopla came with just a minuscule margin of victory in the Lower House, and the race for the vital control of the Senate in a virtual deadlock-awaiting the final six seats to be determined by votes to be counted of Italians living abroad (it appeared later Tuesday that with support of those outside of Italy the center-left had clinched the Senate...
...Whether this bitterly fought election battle turns into a protracted political deadlock or signals the last chapter in Berlusconi?s unlikely political career remains to be seen. But whatever the final result, the story for now is still all about Silvio. The Prime Minister?s shoot-from-the-hip style of politics and oversized presence on the public stage managed to make up ground in the final weeks after polls had suggested he was headed toward a humiliating defeat. Though he has largely failed to deliver on promises to remake his country's outdated economic system, Berlusconi?s real victory...