In recent years, Italian politics and journalism are all rotated around a big lie: the false belief that Silvio Berlusconi and Berlusconi were the majority in the country. The numbers, indeed, have always said the opposite. Even when Berlusconi was at the height of its power (the 2008 election) has ever been able to collect 51 percent of the vote. The Knights reached only to 37 percent of voters (something different than the voters), but declined after each election. The big lie, however, was repeated, as told, set out and analyzed so many times, end up being taken for true. With resignation, and not necessarily only refer to Knight, many said that our country has the leadership it deserves . That a nation made up of smart, of tax evaders, the lazy, the corrupt and recommended, could only be represented by Berlusconi and his clones.
Well, they were wrong. Italy was (and is) another thing. Italians - both right and left - are in a majority extraordinary people. Made of women and men who kill themselves (when we have work). Who engage in nearly 500,000 volunteer organizations. Going abroad (4 million) to succeed what to do at home is impossible. This is not (only) the country of the world's most powerful mafia groups, the most corrupt politicians of Western Europe. This is, however, the country Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino Francesca Morvillo, anti-racketeering associations of Confindustria in Sicily and traders say no to lace. It is the country of George Ambrosoli, Libero Grassi, Peppino Impastato, journalists threatened in Calabria, the police themselves who pay the petrol for their cars, public employees who bring their home computers to run their offices, the workers occupying the factories and climb on the roofs just asking to be working.
Italy, in short, is much better than those in the Government and the Parliament is undeserved. And this Sunday in February, thanks to women are beginning to realize. Never before had seen such massive demonstrations organized by non-parties, but by the people. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets not as a moral lesson, but for dignity. Without hate, without violence, said the big lie that they are no longer there.
Berlusconi as well, thanks to the sale of Deputies, the Chamber still has the majority, is increasingly minority in the country. As illustrated by the various flop of events organized by the PDL , even among those who voted the Knight is now difficult to find anyone willing to spend on him. The King, not only metaphorically, is naked. Needless to delude ourselves, however. The prime minister did not resign. He will not now. To force him to leave it will take many more February 13, many other places, and finally a clear call for early elections. Only in this way in Parliament who campaigning alongside Berlusconi not out of loyalty but out of interest - dare calculations. It will begin to understand that support the increasingly heavy throne of a dying old Sultan is not convenient. Because the when the inevitable fall whole court eventually overturned .
Peter Gomez
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