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...could call for immediate elections, or assign a caretaker government to usher in a new electoral law and other much-needed reforms. Most pundits predict that the next national showdown at the polls will feature Berlusconi against Rome's mayor and leader of the newly formed Democratic party, Walter Veltroni. But already Tuesday, Italian dailies were speculating that Prodi would try to fend off Veltroni and take on Berlusconi again...
Berlusconi's surprise announcement was in large part an attempt to respond to the fusion of the two largest parties from the ruling coalition into the newly christened Democratic Party, headed by Rome's popular mayor Walter Veltroni. But hope for any such similar merger on the center-right was quickly squashed by Berlusconi's purported allies. Leader of the second-largest opposition party, Gianfranco Fini, said Monday he wouldn't even consider uniting with Berlusconi under the new party. In general, disaffection with politics in Italy is running high. Berlusconi had once presented himself as an Italian version...
...city mayor must be all things to all people: traffic cop, fix-it man, novelist. Novelist? Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni has expanded his public duties to include exploring his private fantasies. No, not those fantasies. Veltroni is too smart and ambitious a public servant - he is often mentioned as a future Italian Prime Minister - to write anything racy. Still, his new book La Scoperta dell'Alba (Discovering the Dawn) has an intimate feel, following a 40-something's search for the cause of his father's disappearance during his childhood. "A mother can't abandon her child, but a father...
...champion of Europe. And now that brand has been damaged." Prodi indicated last week that he would sacrifice his own ambitions if necessary for the good of the coalition: "The project comes before the roles, and the roles we'll decide together." Some are promoting Rome's Mayor Walter Veltroni, 49, as a fresher alternative. "Veltroni is a uniter. He's a classic big-tent candidate," says an opposition spokesman. And that's what may be needed to control the center-left circus. For the moment, Veltroni continues to express loyalty to Prodi, but if the older man steps aside...
...great help to be able to get their goods around the central area promptly. I would commend a congestion charge for all large cities whose residents would like to be able to breathe clean air. Malcolm Dymott Uxbridge, England Re your selection of Rome's mayor Walter Veltroni: Although I work in Vienna, I am Roman, and not very young. I have never seen Rome in as poor condition as it is under Veltroni's administration. He apparently is a kind man who believes that to manage a city, it is sufficient to visit old ladies and the disabled. Piero...