Prodi seeks confidence vote...

and declares that he defended Mastella (make a search looking at the keywords to find out what happened) but Mastella's party declares that they will not vote the confidence to the Government. In the meantime with or without votes the Government has the numbers to go ahead at the lower house where today Prodi went to verify if his government still got a majority. I really wonder why he didn't go to the upper house instead, where he would have definitely had to resign due to the very small majority he has got there.

Anyway, while Americans have to decide between Obama and Clinton and they are surprised about the latest reciprocal attacks, in Italy the choice is between the usual people, a bunch of oligarchs attached to their chairs as much as a character of the Peanuts to his security blanket. Holding power not to go to jail. This is the constant soundtrack and, as Mastella himself said, as they could not send him to jail they attacked his wife. I say... Good! I hope that a few more wives and lovers might end up in jail.

It's really unbelievable how some dishonest politicians tend to pass as martyrs of the system. Frankly, this country, is giving me nausea and I really would love to see some major changes, a revolution, a coup, I just don't care, as long as they wipe off this arrogant and shameless political class. On the other side we have a 70 years old youngster involved in all the scandals of the last 20 years and still running as leader of the opposition coalition, supported by Fini, after they have been throwing shit at each other... What a mean country! Once again, only Casini, UDC, keeps saying that Berlusconi is not his leader...

Mr. Prodi, go home, amongst all the politicians you are the only one that I can partially save. See you when you will probably be President of this Banana Republic.

Time to go Mr Prodi

I still cannot believe that Prodi is holding is Premiership with the teeth... Mr. Mastella, the disgraced justice minister that resigned after allegation of corruption charges and reported already in this Blog, is looking for the coalition solidarity in exchange of the support from his party to the government. He is shooting on former judge Di Pietro and Pecorario Scanio (the environmental minister accused of being the main culprit in Campania rubbish mess). Mr Mastella has been accusing the investigating judges of being inadequate to the job and being openly against him, his wife and his party.

Frankly I would rather resign than showing solidarity to someone that has made of his party his own kingdom and holds the tight grip on Campania's politics and has taken the place of the old lords swept away from the Bribesville scandal in which Di Pietro, now a minister of the incumbent government, was the key figure.

Come on, do a favour to Italy, resign!

in the meantime the leader of the Democratic Party,  Walter Veltroni, has declared of being fedup with all this cheap blackmailing going on concerning the election law and he has publicly announced that the DP will be running next elections alone,  without any other coalition party, no matter which law will be used to vote. He has invited Berlusconi's Forza Italia to do the same. Strong criticism have fallen on him from every sector of the Parliament and even within his own party the fear of losing the power is strong. I think that this is the first serious declaration that Veltroni has made since his election at leader of the newly formed party and I hope that Berlusconi will accept to do the same with Forza Italia. I guess that the majority of the Italians would be very happy to see a true election challenge between the two parties. But, as Penelope's work, every night whatever has been done in the day is normally undone... Waiting for Ulysses to come back... In this case I think we are just waiting either for Godot or for someone with a big charisma to bring down the whole establishment once and for all and continue what Bribesville didn't manage to do: destroy this fake democratic system we have.

On january 20th, Pecoraro Scanio, the environment Minister accused by the centrist of being the cause of the rubbish crisis in Campania, has declared that if he doesn't get support from the majority he might call the day... So we have two politicians accusing each other and both looking for the smpathy of the government they are part of... cool!

Banana Republic seen from China

Seen at this latitude, my country seems like an underdeveloped country that has just come out of a 100 years of dictatorship. While French people got nothing better to think about but their president’s personal affairs, Italy is still far from reaching this stage. We are still looking at democratic emergencies and no time yet to look at sexual behaviours of our politicians or their love stories.

This morning I have accessed the website of the Corriere della Sera newspaper and I read:

Mr. Mastella (Justice Minister) being investigated and his wife placed under arrests at her home place. Lady Mastella is a politican as well. The accusation are of corruption charges and many (23 as at today) members of the UDEUR centrist party are being accused and arrested.

Nothing new under the sun of corrupted Italy. But what I find new are the accusations of the Justice Minister to the judges, that reflect Mr. Berlusconi’s views after he has been placed under investigation many ma ny times since he entered politics in 1994. What it’s even worse is the fact that Mastella’s allies are showing solidarity with him, while they never did with Berlusconi, and with the usual exception of Mr. Di Pietro (former judge and main figure in the Bribesville scandal that wiped off out political class – but never completed, unfortunately) that still defends the autonomy of the magistrates.

Then I read about Benedict XVI that has been invited amid strong protests not to participate to a conference at a Roman University. The sentence that has put the German Sheppard under enemy fire has been a comment made by Ratzinger in 1990 about Feyerabend’s thought about Galileo Galilei… “The Church trial against Galileo was fair and due…”

From these two episodes alone you can understand that Italy is still trying to become a lay state. Mrs. Mastella said that the judges are attacking her and the husband because they are catholic! In Italy, folks, we are still persecuting Christians! Can you believe that?

While the Referendum to change the electoral law has been approved by the highest constitutional court the “rats” in the parliament are trying to make sure that the referendum can be avoided. They are afraid that with the referendum going ahead they might lose their comfortable chairs! I hope we will reach the referendum, even if they can still change the law before we go to vote and we will have wasted another fortune.

Other news? Ok… Capello is under investigation for tax evasion… So? Where is the news? The only news is tha AC Milan has been thrown out of Italy’s Cup by Catania, and I toast to that!
That’s all folks!