The "miracle" Italian 
13 and April 14, 2008 parliamentary elections were held, after only two years of the Prodi government. The situation, as compared to 2006, has changed a lot in the "miracle" as Italian premier were 14 candidates, only four of which could have a good electoral relevance, or Silvio Berlusconi (PDL, Lega Nord, MPA) Walter Veltroni (PD, Italy of Values), Fausto Bertinotti (The left side of the rainbow), Pier Ferdinando Casini (UCD). The first two leaders had great opportunity to get to Palazzo Chigi, the other two were more that more be a good opposition parlamentare.Come polls predicted, the coalition led by Berlusconi won the elections, and a little 'surprise, a tremendous distance in both the House and the Senate by his main contender. The candidate for prime minister of the PDL in the last days of the campaign has completely delirious, making idiotic statements and objectively offensive on the job (telling a girl to marry a millionaire), the President of the Republic (considering the possibility of his resignation after the elections) and the judges (proposing to test him to see their mental health), almost all denied the next day. It 's highly likely that due to the ripe old age, Berlusconi abbia avuto un attacco di Alzhaimer al giorno, peccato solo che non abbia mai dimenticato di essere lui il candidato presidente, sarebbe stato bello il contrario. Anche il Ku Klux Klan del nord d’Italia (la Lega) ha regalato agli italiani delle performance a dir poco tragicomiche, tra cui il manifesto dell’Indiano e le varie affermazioni di Bossi, che minacciava continuamente di imbracciare i fucili nel caso di sconfitta. Le liste del Popolo della Libertà avevano al loro interno, oltre ai soliti personaggi, delle persone dichiaratamente nostalgiche del fascismo come la Mussolini e Ciarrapico, facendo diventare il PDL non un partito conservatore di stampo europeo, ma piuttosto una lista di destra quasi estrema, alleata, tra l’altro, con xenophobes who represent the greatest shame for this country. Output defeat, but firm, was the center-left coalition, formed by the Democratic Party and Italy of Values. While the latter party has remained more or less faithful to its ideals, the PD has become increasingly moderate, disappearing almost entirely left-wing statements. Unfortunately, this does not converge at the center is implemented only in the statements, but also and especially in political acts, most notably the break with the Left The Rainbow and the composition of the lists. The latter was the lowest part of the whole election campaign veltroniana, as the former mayor Rome has prepared a soup to say the least stodgy, combining the workman of the contractor with Thyssen Calearo right, the radical and anticlerical with teodem Binetti Bonino, former president of Confindustria, Matteo Colannino youth with precarious. The deputy secretary of the party Franceschini, to justify these lists, explained that a major party must reflect the country. Perhaps Veltroni's deputy does not know that a party is by definition part, and that, therefore, not entitled to represent all and all, but rather a single slice of the country. Who instead of this "mission" is the Parliament, through the various component parts, may contain all souls and opinions of the country. The reality is that Veltroni has wanted to break with the left, to implement a policy center, which satisfied the powers that be especially Italian and foreign. It can be seen elsewhere in his government program, which in many respects is similar if not identical, to that of the PDL. In fact, both the one and the other want to do the Tav, both intend to continue to fund and probably increase the cost of the missions of "peace" with tanks and guns in Afghanistan, both maintain the Biagi law on precarious, both the widely reallizeranno of the U.S. base in Vicenza, etc., etc.. On the other hand both have the view that politics should not be based on some basic ideas about society, but rather on the pragmatic solution to a government program always mediate between the parties, however, preferring the strong powers including Confindustria, the Church and the U.S.. I personally do not agree with this idea, because I think that politics is not just solving problems, but it is also passion, dream, analysis of society and in contact with the population. What the two parties is quite different is the attitude: while Berlusconi has shown to have little sense of the state, engaging in a little statement 'arrogant and making gestures not entirely civilians (such as how the program had the opposite deployment and the various bad impression that we did do in Europe when he was in government), Veltroni is rather mild and quiet person, often feel-good and commonplace, both in gestures that the declarations, but always respecting the highest offices of state and institutions in general, contrary to what is his biggest rival. The other party has had an election result was not entirely negative Casini of the UDC, who at least managed to enter parliament, both the House and the Senate. In terms of communication in Casino can not be accused of anything special, but what is frankly unacceptable is the presence in its lists of many who have been convicted for serious crimes, most notably the horrific figure of Totò Cuffaro (that of the cannoli, for instance), which just two months ago he was convicted of collaboration with the Mafia. The greatest tragedy of this election, along with the rise of the Ku Klux Klan Po valley, is the parliamentary defeat and disappearance of "The Left - the Rainbow," that a little 'surprise scored only 3% of the vote. Undoubtedly
managers of the electoral list have made a mistake after another, starting with the choice of Bertinotti to go for Speaker of the House instead of the Minister of Labour, a decision that has had very bad consequences, just think that the left has not been nulla da questo esecutivo e che ha dovuto sempre votare cose su cui era completamente contraria (missioni militari, ad esempio), e, allo stesso tempo, era vista dai media come la forza che più ostacolava il governo, quando in realtà erano le forze centriste a farlo in maniera più pregnante. Insomma, un gran pasticcio da cui era molto difficile uscirne, in quanto se non otteneva quello che voleva, come è sempre successo, perdeva credibilità di fronte ai suoi elettori e se, invece, spingeva il governo ad attuare misure più “radicali” era vista dalla maggior parte di cittadini di centro-sinistra come la spina al fianco di Prodi. La sinistra – l’arcobaleno è stata divorata prima di tutto dall’astensione, e poi dal Partito Democratico, che è riuscito a prendere i voti radicali grazie alla strategia del famigerato voto utile (che si è rivelato semplicemente dannoso, in quanto non è servito a battere Berlusconi e, allo stesso tempo, ha contribuito alla scomparsa della sinistra); dall’Italia dei Valori, che ha cavalcato in modo furbesco la cosiddetta antipolitica di Grillo; dalla Lega Nord, che a sorpresa è riuscita a prendere voti operai; infine, dal Partito comunista dei lavoratori e da Sinistra Critica, i due fuoriusciti da Rifondazione Comunista, che da soli non hanno raggiunto l’1% dei voti, ma sommati insieme sì. Il nuovo Parlamento avrà soltanto sei partiti (PDL, PD, Lega Nord, Unione di Centro, Italia values, the Movement for autonomy), implementing the much-vaunted simplification, which many journalists and political scientists is the best outcome of this election. Undoubtedly six parliamentary groups are better than thirty-four, as they were until a few months ago, but the problem is that in this case the simplification is not entirely representative, as an important slice of the country remain without deputies and senators, or the left. Simplification is good only if it can be more or less the entire country, it excludes an important part. Without the Left in parliament we are heading towards an unrepresentative legislature, as well as the most conservative and reactionary of all the history of Italian Republic.
