Berlusconi and the twenty years' war

Sunday, 12 May, 2013. Silvio Berlusconi's Mediaset broadcaster Canale 5 airs a two-hour documentary to demonstrate prosecutors sex-related charges against the former prime minister are groundless (at least to the public opinion), as a last act of a counteroffensive against the Italian judiciary.

All but chaste

“The twenty years' war” is the title of a two-hour documentary, that was aired on Sunday, the day before the prosecutor's closing arguments would be declared at the Rubygate sex scandal trial (the request would be a 6-year sentence), where Silvio Berlusconi is accused of abuse of power and having paid the then-minor Karima El-Mahroug (aka Ruby Heartstealer, Ruby Rubacuori in Italian) for sex.

Silvio Berlusconi's stand is that the dinners where young girls and women were invited (some of them were just kept at hand in the bunga-bunga army) were pretty “normal soirées” and that his guests “kept their cloths on”. Prosecution thinks he has been running aprostitution ring. They find it difficult to reconcile the two different positions.

The broadcast was following a protest against Italian judiciary, a demonstration that took place in Brescia the day before. Among the others, also Angelino Alfano – Italian Minister of the Interior as well as vice prime minister – decided to take part in the demonstration, which may sound odd to foreign observers.

Apart from this, Karima El-Mahroug keeps saying she is not (and she wasn't) a prostitute. And in the beginning of April she staged asmall-scale-protest to state her case.

Berlusconi's blonde admirer torpedoed over 'homophobic' comments (but seems to fall on her feet)

Friday, 3 May, 2013. Silvio Berlusconi staunch admirer and People of Liberty party's member of Italian parliament gets stripped of equal opportunities ministerial role over 'homophobic' comments.

The blonde Michaela Biancofiore, is an entrepreneur in the wellness industry, a politician, and a staunch defender and admirer of Silvio Berlusconi.

She once said of the former prime minister: «He has the defect to love women, but at least he's not like [former Lazio region's chairman] Marrazzo going with transsexuals,».

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes? Silvio certainly does!

To make it clearer, in October 2012, the young Michaela  (she is 43) commented a press conference from Villa Gernetto in this way: «Yes, I listened to the presentation of Berlusconi ... a clarity like no other, once again he has proved to be the only a statesman [in Italy], has shown an ability that frankly leaves you breathless, speechless, at this time there are no other leader at its height, and I would like to emphasize to the Italian people.»

She also tried to convince the Italians that the media tycoon was the right man to become the the new President of the Republic – creating an ad hoc Internet site (berlusconialquirinale.org, Berlusconi to the Quirinal Hill, where the official residence of the Italian Head of State is). Nothing doing slightly more than 1,000 people singed up.