At long last, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is going bye bye. The whole world has been incredulous and outraged for years, watching his shenanigans.
After dominating Italian politics for 17 years, Berlusconi resigned on Saturday, November 12, 2011. Crowds jeered and cheered and played Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” as they celebrated the end of a long, tedious and detrimental era.
Italy is at the crux-point of economic and political crisis. The world, again… still, watches and waits as the country shuffles to create new, leading political structure.
Wish her luck.
Tanti auguri, Italia!
During elections in May 2011, Berlusconi was promoting Letizia Moratti, from his party, “The People of Liberty”, “for the good of Milano”.
Playing on xenophobia and Italy’s immigration problems, Berlusconi’s party claimed that if the other party were elected, Milano would become “a gypsy city with nomad camps and the biggest mosque in Europe”.