The
recent sentence by a Milan's tribunal in the Mediaset-trial – last Friday Silvio Berlusconi was condemned to four years in jail,
diminished to only one year thank to a tax fraud official remission –
irritated the former Italian prime minister to such an extent, that
he burst out talking nonsense, as usual, using its powerful media
machinery.
Firstly,
after having pledge to retire from the political life, he went for a
volte-face and said that being Italy's democracy threatened by the
judges (“It's not a democracy, it's a magistocracy” he stated
yesterday) he must remain to reform the judiciary. It sounded as a
proper turn-about to the Italians, a new hashtag was rapidly coined
on Twitter: #ancoratu (#youagain?), to stress how they feel about it.
Secondly,
he decided to threaten Mario Monti's government: the People of
Liberty party might not grant the confidence to the cabinet, “its
policies are deepening the recession” in the country. He obviously
doesn't remember why he had to resign, almost a year ago.
Third,
he recalls an event that happened a year ago and which he might never
forget, a malicious exchange of smiles between Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy:
they “tried to murder my International credibility” would say
Berlusconi in an interview on Canale 5 (Channel 5, own by the same
person, Silvio Berlusconi). This last statement is just a need to
give vent to his anger, supposedly, does not necessarily imply a
cunning political move from the tycoon. Obviously there was no such a
thing as a “International credibility” of Mr Berlusconi, after a
long series of International gaffes (see our YouTube channel for some
of the most juicy ones). You might remember he was filmed as he
joyfully faked a doggy-style with a Belgian police woman in the streets of Brussels.
So,
Berlusconi is back. It is not necessarily good news for Italy.
