The blusterbuss that is Silvio Berlusconi is firing full blast and all Italy is, yet again, watching him fight his way out of his latest troubles. They include his umpteenth brush with Italy’s magistrates, a damning legal judgment that he bribed David Mills, the British lawyer, a cool $600,000 to commit perjury; divorce, for the second time, in this Catholic country – a divorce blamed by Veronica Lario, his wife, on her septuagenarian spouse’s “consorting with minors”; and his implausible friendship with a Neapolitan family remarkable only for the beauty of Noemi Letizia, their daughter.
Any one of these scandals would destroy most politicians. Even in Italy. Voters here can and do get angry. This is, after all, the country where, in the 1990s, the force of their disgust vaporised an entire political generation and dissolved both the long-dominant Christian Democrats and the Socialist party.
Yet they show no sign as yet of destroying Berlusconi. Italy is stirred, all right; he is the talk of every bar and some Italians want to see him behind bars. The normally supportive church rumbles disapprovingly. Yet his extraordinary popularity has barely been shaken, not even by the Letizia scandal.
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