[TigerLikesRooster]

(Gregorio Borgia/AP)
Mara Carfagna, a former model and television presenter, is in line to take over as minister for families

(Luca Bruno/AP) The Northern League, headed by Umberto Bossi, is set for a powerful role in the Berlusconi government

(Danilo Schiavella/EPA) Stefania Prestigiacomo has been appointed to the post of Europe Minister in the Berlusconi government

[WakeUpAndVote]

I'll take two.

[aft_lizard]

Mara Carfagna is a fox, she can be minister of my family any day of the week.

[Nonstatist]

Mara Carfagna, a former model and television presenter, is in line to take over as minister for families

She can minister my family, any day of the week.

[KC Burke]

Who will be President of the Italian Senate?

[a freedom-loving italian]

The League brought down the 1994 Berlusconi government by withdrawing from it, but served for a full five-year term as part of Mr Berlusconi's administration between 2001 and 2006.

and that's why "fear over anti-immigration party" has no motivation whatsoever: "Lega Nord" and Berlusconi party share exactly the same values i.e. conservative values. The reason why in 1994 Lega Nord betrayed was that leftist President Scalfaro assured Bossi -the head of Lega Nord- that Berlusconi was finished as prosecutors was soon to put him in jail.

That was a lie, and now Berlusconi is alive and kicking, while his party has 4 times the votes of Lega Nord. So speculations about future Berlusconi government instability are pure BS

[Southack]

I love that you can **feel** the bitterness of defeat coming from the news author.

Berlusconi rocks!

[definitelynotaliberal]

I loved this line from the article:

Exit polls wrongly indicated that Mr Veltroni, who campaigned with a programme of “change and hope” as “Italy’s Barack Obama”, has caught up and Left and Right were neck and neck, raising the prospect of deadlock.

I can’t wait to see hope and change blown out of the water here as well - not that I am, by any stretch of the imagination, a McCain supporter. I just get tired of hearing some permutation of hope is on the way every 4 years. Hope is already here. It has been here since 1776. We don’t need these self-appointed false prophets and messiahs.

[norton]

Anyone out there have a good interpretation/definition of
"Berluskaiser"?
I'm guessing it ties N. Italy with Germany/Bavaria instead of the boot?

[Paleo Conservative]

The right sure has better looking women.

[JerseyHighlander]

Like clockwork the out of touch dolts from the European media bring out the xenophobia charges.

It’s completely pathetic, yesterday even left wing European bloggers were joking about these headlines being frontpage today due to Berlusconi’s win.