The only one that expected the net victory of Berlusconi’s coalition was Berlusconi himself. While votes gets counted, thanks to Walter Veltroni’s simplification of politics, we will have no communists, pacifist, socialists, fascists in the Parliament. Is it positive? If Berlusconi had not taken some tiny political parties in his PDL, probably there would have been less fascists and pensioners (there is a party in Berlusconi’s coalition called Pensioners Party) and an even simpler Parliamentary situation. For the first time since the republic came to exist there will be no socialists, fascists and communists representing the Italians but my biggest satisfaction is the fact that there is no Catholic Organised Party, actually there is one but it is so negligible. The other shock is the victory of Bossi’s Northern League with something around 8.5% that if we consider collects votes only in Northern Italy, gives the idea of the big scale of this victory. For the third time Berlusconi goes to power and this time we will have him running the country for 5 full years and he will be able to prove how good he is as he has no excuse this time to accuse this or that allied. While Berlusconi goes through the list of the Ministers of his government, many political leaders have resigned. It’s funny to talk about new Italy when the leader is someone that has been around the political scene since 1994, but this time I feel like the Italians have preferred the old to the new. Let’s see what he is going to do now for my country. I stay away from it, I stay gladly away from Italy but we will have five tough years marked by unpopular decisions and a few strikes. Anyway, the disappearance in Italy of the socialists is the saddest part, for me, coming from a very socialist family and I will miss my old adversaries, the Communists. It’s a new Italy, as I said before but the people are still the same old ones and I hope, but I do not believe it, that there will be this big revolution that is always announced. So far from the votes counted we have Berlusconi’s coalition around 47% versus Veltroni’s at 37%. The only other party that should enter the Lower House should be the UDC that got a 5.6%. Senate: Berlusconi 47% and Veltroni 38%, UDC 5.7%. Still unknown the number of senator distribution due to the complex system but the numbers are very clear and Berlusconi has no problem in running the country has he pleases and I am looking forward to hearing about the excuses he will find now to justify his inaction. In the meantime the first steps of this government should be the solution of the rubbish problem in Naples and Alitalia’s bankruptcy as Berlusconi declared he would not have “given” Alitalia to France. Good luck Italy! You need it! And this time Mr. Berlusconi, you go no excuses to avoid reforms and you will have no communists to attack on just everything, you will have nothing stopping you from restart building nuclear power stations, you will have nobody stoping you from proving to be the man of the Providence, nobody stopping you from keep up with all the promises you have been making since you entered politics. However I hope that one of my dreams might come true and thanks to the Northern League we will assist at the division of Italy in at least two different countries. Of course I am a Southerner and I would love a Southern Italian passport..
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