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Viva Prodi

Jill

Romano Prodi’s coalition narrowly beats Silvio Berlusconi’s in the Italian general elections. Woohoo! I do love to see Forza Italia go down.

When I studied in Italy, Berlusconi made waves by comparing a German MEP to a Nazi — not an OK thing to say in Germany. Recently, he raised ire again by comparing himself to Jesus — for the second time. And he didn’t stop his crazy-man antics during the election:

During the election campaign, he managed to upset China by claiming its communist regime once boiled babies to make fertiliser, a dig at Prodi’s allies.

I can see how that accusation would be slightly upsetting. Berlusconi is a loud-mouth, a liability, and a corrupt politician. He’s a major media mogul and the richest man in the country; Prodi is a seasoned politician whose work with the EU has been laudable and who saw Italy through some turbulent political times (of course, when have Italian politics not been turbulent?). I’m glad to see him in power. Brava, Italia.

6 thoughts on Viva Prodi

  1. Does this mean there’s a chance he will finally be dragged in front of a court? He’s been working hard during the past few years to make sure the law doesn’t apply to him, hopefully there will be a change now…

  2. Don’t forget that his coalition partners (Alleanza Nazionale) are literally “former” fascists who have dressed themselves up in respectable clothing.

  4. Was Prodi the candidate that said he would consider extending certain marital rights to same sex couples? The only thing I know about Italian politics is that some candidate was talking about that a couple months ago.

  6. What a nail biter. With just 34 precincts left, not enough to make a difference, it looks like the Prodi coalition has a vote majority of about 27,000. Thanks to an election reform law enacted last fall by Berlusconi’s coalition, however, the winner of the lower chamber automatically gets a “governing majority” of 340 seats, so it looks like it will be 340 to 277. Unfortunately Berlusconi faces jail time if he loses so expect things to get dirty with the contested count.

    The senate looks like it will be 154 left, 155 right according to the Interior Ministry, but this does not include the six seats allocated for overseas Italtians.

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