Grossasheiza...
Is DU blaming Dieboldo and Haliburtononi?
Italy has had like 50 or more governments since the end of WW2 - I think that 'spectre of chronic political instability' is a lot more solid than the usual ghost.
Read another story that said that the Forza party won the Senate.
you would think after what has been going on in france the past year, the Italians wouldn't want the same for their country.
Goes to show that the muslims, secularists, commies, and others are taking over.
Prodi jumps the gun.
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2006/04/10/afx2661500.html
"Under Italy's new electoral system, the ballot winners are automatically granted 340 of the lower house's 630 seats no matter how small their margin of victory in the popular vote, with the runners-up getting 277 seats."
We ate in our (absolutley fabulous) local Italian place tonight (best antepasto EVER) and they have these rather educational place mats about Italy. Per the placemat Italy has 60 million people. The USA has 250 million. So WHY do they have so many congress critters over there? I mean, they have about 100 more than we do, with scores of millions fewer people. And their Senate is huge too.
PS - GO SILVIO!
I was pleasantly surprised a newspaper would use quotation marks to indicate a cliffhanger win, particular as the leading party (so far) described is from the Left. Until I read that it is from the Melbourne Herald Sun. No wonder.
MSMs are still MSMs - their left-leaning agendas are pretty apparent.
Rocky Balboa was the Italian Stallion.
Prodi is the Italian Algore.
Mr Berlusconi's centre-right alliance contested Mr Prodi's claim of triumph, saying it wanted to check reports that half a million votes had been annulled.Prodi's team of election advisors are headed back to Washington state, Ohio, and Florida.