Addio, Slivio; The Italian Crisis  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 401 no. 8759 (Nov. 2011), page 27-28.
Topik: Political Power; Economic Crisis
Fulltext: The Italian Crisis.pdf (46.46KB)

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On November 8th Silvio Berlusconi, who had been haemorrhaging support for months, went to see Italy's president, Giorgio Napolitano, and promised to resign. The final knife-thrust was the loss of his majority in the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of parliament, in a crucial vote on the re-submitted 2010 public accounts. Even if elections are held soon, Mr Berlusconi says he will not be running. He now feels "liberated". So does Italy. Mr Berlusconi has governed it for eight and a half of the past ten years, and has probably done more to mould it in his image than anyone since the country's fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini. For the past 30 months he has clung to power with improbable tenacity, shrugging off scandals that would have felled the leader of almost any other country. And he has still not gone, quite. As he has already told the president, he will leave only once the legislature has approved a package of economic reforms agreed on with the European institutions and intended both to shrink Italy's government deficit and revive its flagging economy. The Italy Mr Berlusconi will hand to his successor ranks 87th in the World Bank's Ease of Doing Business survey, behind Albania. The bank found it was harder to get an electricity supply than in Sudan. In Transparency International's latest corruption perceptions index, Italy ranked 67th. Rwanda and several other African countries were cleaner.

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