The beauty of all this is that the PM will just say “so what?” and the public will forgive him.
Exactly. This is Italy.
I like one of the comments in the Times comment section:
“I work in Italy and have been asking my Italian colleagues about the reasons for dear Silvio’s success. They tell me (only half jokingly) that it’s because every Italian man wants to be like him and every woman wants to go to bed with him. Viva Italia.”