Two months after Silvio Berlusconi set off the worst crisis in his political career by attending the 18th birthday party of an aspiring model in a Naples suburb, his team has finally come up with a defence strategy.
This week Mr Berlusconi, instead of losing his temper and attacking “the press, plotters and Communists”, appeared serene and jaunty. He claimed that Italians “like me the way I am”. If “the wrong kind of guests” had attended his parties, it was because they took advantage of his generosity as a host.
The other tactic is to muddy the waters by claiming that the Left is also guilty of sleazy behaviour. Yesterday Il Giornale, owned by Mr Berlusconi’s brother Paolo, devoted pages to allegations that aides to Massimo D’Alema, the former centre-left Prime Minister, were supplied with prostitutes in exchange for favours in the award of public contracts when he was in office a decade ago.
The publication’s other target was Lorenzo Cesa, a Christian Democratic leader, who it claimed had past links to a “madam” who had organised “red-light parties” involving drugs.
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