Thursday, May 6, 2010

Over Her Knee Stories

The nightmare of the artichoke

Fausto Carioti

It is no coincidence that Gianfranco Fini and Umberto Bossi, had not even agreed yesterday abandoned Silvio Berlusconi, disproving his thesis of 'legal offensive "against the PDL and the government. "There is no conspiracy or obstinacy of the courts against the executive," said Speaker of the House in its umpteenth appearance on TV. "I think the judges just do their job," echoed the leader of the League. No wonder the two, for once, speak the same language. And both are keen to reap the dividends of the tsunami record, according to radio the House, is about to fall on the men of Knight. The signs for those who want to see them, there are already all: the resignation of Claudio Scajola yesterday followed the news of the listing of defendants Denis Verdini, one of three coordinators of the PDL, accused of corruption. And while you make bets on who will be the next victim.

To confirm the paranoia of the prime minister is a fact: Scajola Verdini and have been in recent years its strong men, the organizers of the impossible missions. So much so that, whenever Verdini was given for departing from the role of coordinator, as you did to his place was former Democrat of Imperia. Hard to imagine anyone outside of these two, in the role of a great man machine Berlusconi. And now, in twenty-four hours, it happens that Scajola was forced to bow out, perhaps forever, and the head of a tile falls Verdini of considerable size. So Berlusconi goes around saying he was victim of 'strategy of artichoke' via a leaf after another, until the center is not discovered, ready to be bitten. It is no secret fear of prosecution by the Knight is coming some nasty surprise for Gianni Letta, the man closest to him.

Neither nor Bossi Fini, however, have these problems. The first, given for departing from the PDL before the next election, has chosen the theme of justice and legality for accreditation as an exponent "right" (because, in the rest of his "program", right there is little or nothing). Easy to predict who will be on these issues in parliament, will split the PDL. Also because the men of the majority and the government under the headings of these hours are bound to end involved in judicial investigations, just to be clear, that originate from both Force Italy to An, but today they are all lined with Berlusconi. A Fini, in short, this time really does not cost anything to be with the judges and say things very similar to those of Antonio Di Pietro.

As Bossi, has scented air of early elections. He would prefer that this term came to an end naturally after having transformed into law on federalism. But if the alternative is to keep alive a parliament bogged down by "Finian secession" and unable to vote on measures that really care about the League, the Senatur will not trouble himself to give the coup de grace to the legislature, to go to vote in the spring of 2011. Meanwhile prepares to collect voters who were dismayed by the move away from the PDL because the price of real estate purchases in the balance by the Ministers Berlusconi and everything you read in the next months on judicial reports. To distance themselves from Berlusconi, who attacks the judiciary is the first sign of interest that Bossi send to all of them.

© Free . Posted May 6, 2010.

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