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Berlusconi cries Fraud!; Mafia boss arrested

Welcome to HaloTrip.blogspot.com | The elections are over inwards Italy but that hasn't stopped the insults too accusations. After a most unedifying campaign it looks equally though Berlusconi volition become , but he isn't planning to operate out quietly. And equally the richest homo inwards the province , too amongst command of much of Italy's media , he for certain isn't going to disappear. He's been defendant , charged too thrown out earlier but even then bounced back.

From an outsider's perspective , Italy's politics are murky at best. Living inwards the province you lot instruct real petty feel of a straight chain of command. Central regime is made upward of bickering coalitions (sometimes resorting to fisticuffs inwards parliament) too it isn't ever slow to come across its number on everyday life. Authorities are manifold too unremarkably suspect. With constant allegations of corruption too intimidation at every score , correct downwardly to local hamlet councils , many Italians volition only ringlet their eyes too plough over that shrug when you lot inquire who controls their lives too their country. Maybe they're making black suggestions , or possibly they're only equally confused equally everyone else.

The Times , meanwhile , suggests that some other Italian tidings even out may non live unconnected to the election results - come across page two of their even out How Godfather was betrayed past times his postulate for build clean pants . As the Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano is lastly arrested , we're left , equally park , to reverberate on the fact that these rare arrests by too large get got identify inwards or to a greater extent than or less the fugitive's ain draw of piece of occupation solid unit of measurement home; that during their decades 'on the run' they seem to pass near of their fourth dimension inwards their ain hamlet , amongst their families. Read Peter Robb's fantabulous Midnight inwards Sicily for swell coverage of both the isle , its offense too its relation to Italian politics.
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