Berlusconi stands down

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According to the BBC, he's outtadere...

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

wowowowow

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4464865.stm

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

NO!! HE CAN'T BE POPE ASWELL!!!

― Masked Gazza, Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

But will this really change anything? His party are still in power, and even if he doesn't just get reappointed (it's happened enough times in Italian politics before) there'll probably just be a puppet in his place.

Haha xpost - maybe I should have read the news first.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:13 (twenty years ago)

I think I'll wait this one out.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

this shit is crazy! but hey, if this PM thing doesn't pan out, he's still got a ton of TV stations and stuff.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Blimey. I'd say good riddance, but that would almost certainly be speaking too soon.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

I don't care if Berlusconi is still in power, as long as the Lega Nord fuck the hell out of any position of power (and I fully believe Silvio would be happy to stab them in the back if he thought that would win him re-election). Lega Nord are effectively an Italian version of the Hertzog Government.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

he's only resigning to form a new government sans CDU (but including Lega Nord). It's just a lurch to the right...

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

So for those of you with a little more political knowledge than me, what chance is there of l'Ulivo taking over the government at any time soon?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

I am out of touch the l'ulivio might as well stand for dissaray and bickering.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Why do I get the horrid feeling that Italy's next leader will be Roberto Benigni?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

So for those of you with a little more political knowledge than me, what chance is there of l'Ulivo taking over the government at any time soon?

As I understand it they got about 55% of the votes in the regional elections recently, so if Berlusconi can't keep his coalition together and there's an election there's a very strong chance that the Ulivo coalition would win. I think the Ulivo have got the 'Refounded' Communists on board this time, which gives them an extra 5% of the vote which they didn't have in 2001.

― The Horse of Babylon's Butler (the pirate king), Wednesday, 20 April 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

Okay, NOW he's out.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

good riddance

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

GTFO

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

two months pass...

From the WSC Board:

As to the Berlusconi angle, consider that since he lost the election a few months ago, the following matters have also come to light:

1) the Mafia boss of bosses has been arrested after 43 years "on the run";

2) the Italian secret agents who assisted the CIA in kidnapping an Italian-based iman off the streets of Milan have been arrested;

3) new details of complicity between senior figures in Silvio's coalition and insider trading rings have been revealed;

4) a practice whereby "starlets" were required to sleep with senior political figures in order to become "eligible" for jobs as "actresses" on state television has been uncovered;

5) the pretender to the throne has been arrested for involvement in a bribery scandal focusing on illegal slot machines;

6) a "hole" of more than 3 billion euro has been discovered at the State Highway Authority, which had earmarked the same funds for two different pharonic projects supported by Silvio;

7) an investigation into the possibility that Berlusconi's initial "seed capital" for his media empire had Mafia origins has been reopened on the basis of new evidence; and

8) Silvio himself has been scheduled for trial along with his friend Mr. Mills.

And of course, Moggiopoli came out too.

― Dave B (daveb), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 10:48 (nineteen years ago)

It's wierd that Berlusconi came into politics after a corruption scandal had wiped out the Christian Democrats.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:05 (nineteen years ago)

It's not weird at all. Mani puliti created a vacuum which left a lot of corrupt big cheeses unprotected, so a corrupt big cheese stepped in to fill the void and protect his vested interests. Allegedly.

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

Mani pulite, even. Stupid irregular noun.

― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Tuesday, 11 July 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

six months pass...

From Italian PM to shamed husband.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

(whip sound)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Dear god,

Thank you for this. It has made my day in an otherwise fairly crappy week.

kv_nol

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Thursday, 1 February 2007 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, seriously, why no more discussion of this?

It's sort of fantastic.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 1 February 2007 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, we were talking about it yesterday, and something about the story was a bit odd, baffling, but we couldn't put our fingers on it.

But I think it's this: this is the straw that breaks the camel's back? When that camel is married to Silvio Berlusconi? I mean, wouldn't anyone guess that being married to Berlusconi involved many worse indignities than seeing your husband flirt at an awards show? It's just tough to wrap your head around.

― g00blar (gooblar), Thursday, 1 February 2007 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think it would be a big deal if the woman he was flirting with wasn't looking like this:

http://i9.tinypic.com/2head14.gif and (possibly slightly NSFW because of sideways boobage: http://i18.tinypic.com/2j647wp.jpg )

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

(she's called Mara Carfagna, btw.)

― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm SO happy that this story broke when I'm over here. I just wish my Italian was better so I could read all the op-eds in the paper.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 3 February 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

How long you there for again?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 3 February 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

nine months pass...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7101027.stm

― Dom Passantino, Monday, 19 November 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

Here we go again. ffs.

― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

I'm getting this is early...
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/6088/20060408issuecoveu40001zv.jpg

― Ned Trifle II, Wednesday, 6 February 2008 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

three years pass...

He told the President he'd step down after Parliament votes the economic reform package

― Do you know what the secret of comity is? (Michael White), Tuesday, 8 November 2011 21:28 (fourteen years ago)

2011 such a crazy year
feel like this guy has done supremely well to be undone by something as governmental as finance rather than anything lascivious

― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 01:22 (fourteen years ago)

well after a point it was clear that no matter how many bunga bunga scandals came out he was always going to scrape through on a wink and a nudge.

― fun drive (seandalai), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 01:31 (fourteen years ago)

They never gave him a chance.

― The New Dirty Vicar, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 13:38 (fourteen years ago)

can't believe suzy was so ahead of the news with this one

― Buster Mottrhymes (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 14:21 (fourteen years ago)

you know who else stood down that one time? Putin

― Bond 23: Skyrim (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 14:22 (fourteen years ago)

Yeah, right.

― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 15:24 (fourteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

He's going to prison for four years.

― comedy is unnatural and abhorrent (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 26 October 2012 14:23 (thirteen years ago)

And that'll be a laugh riot.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 26 October 2012 14:42 (thirteen years ago)

That's going to be the plushest prison cell ever. Velvet carpets, hot tub, cinema screen, minibar, the works.

― Matt DC, Friday, 26 October 2012 14:54 (thirteen years ago)

He will almost certainly not go to jail, sadly, but his political career might finally be over.

― Go Narine, Go! (ShariVari), Friday, 26 October 2012 19:16 (thirteen years ago)

i'm fascinated by the italian legal system

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Friday, 26 October 2012 19:38 (thirteen years ago)

they have a legal system?

― glumdalclitch, Friday, 26 October 2012 21:12 (thirteen years ago)

aka patronage

― Force Boxman (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 26 October 2012 22:00 (thirteen years ago)

The Italian Legal system:

http://images.awesomebooks.com/images/books/medium/97815/9781590170625.jpg

― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 27 October 2012 13:01 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

Headline of the day:

Missing Witness at Berlusconi Sex Trial Shows Up in Mexico

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 December 2012 21:25 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

this fucking guy

― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 28 January 2013 01:13 (thirteen years ago)

lol i just saw that.

― goole, Monday, 28 January 2013 04:11 (thirteen years ago)

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/berlusconi-defends-mussolini-backing-hitler

"It is difficult now to put oneself in the shoes of who was making decisions back then," Berlusconi said of Mussolini's support for Hitler. "Certainly the (Italian) government then, fearing that German power would turn into a general victory, preferred to be allied with Hitler's Germany rather than oppose it."

Berlusconi added that "within this alliance came the imposition of the fight against, and extermination of, the Jews. Thus, the racial laws are the worst fault of Mussolini, who, in so many other aspects, did good."

it's almost be worth it if he started in on transportation issues after this, if you get me

― goole, Monday, 28 January 2013 04:12 (thirteen years ago)

he's such a dick

― Mordy, Monday, 28 January 2013 04:13 (thirteen years ago)

Hitler apologists can still be unearthed in germany. but they don't elect them as prime minister ffs.

― Aimless, Monday, 28 January 2013 05:50 (thirteen years ago)

eight months pass...

reverse ferret!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24367509

might we have seen the last of him now?

― Neil S, Wednesday, 2 October 2013 12:38 (twelve years ago)

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