DISBELIEF?:

Italy to Hold Snap Elections (Der Spiegel, 2/06/08)

Observers outside Italy may be looking on in disbelief but it appears that media magnate Silvio Berlusconi is about to be given another crack at power in Rome. Italians are to be asked to go the polls again, just 20 months after Prime Minister Romano Prodi's center-left coalition took office.

President Giorgio Napolitano is due to dissolve parliament on Wednesday, clearing the way for snap elections, most likely to be held in mid-April. And current opinion polls predict that the two-time Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is poised to sweep back into power.

Observers just wonder why Spain is taking so long to move back to the Right.

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 6, 2008 12:07 AM