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 misurabili. Questo candidato č il Sig. Silvio Berlusconi.
La BBC ieri dedicava questo articolo alle elezioni italiane. Probabilmente
anche la gloriosa tv britannica e' in mano ai comunisti. C'e' anche la
risposta a quanto affermi, proprio all'inizio:
Riding back to power with promises of modernising Italy, billionaire
Silvio Berlusconi is vague about the details.
Pensions will be raised.  Taxes cut. No-one knows how  such changes
will be financed.
Ma ecco il testo dell'articolo.
Friday, 11 May, 2001, 15:47 GMT 16:47 UK
Berlusconi: The billion-dollar question
By Brian Barron in Rome
Riding back to power with promises of modernising Italy, billionaire
Silvio Berlusconi is vague about the details.
Pensions will be raised.  Taxes cut. No-one knows how  such changes
will be financed.
Mr   Berlusconi already has  unrivalled  mastery over  Italy's  commercial
television and media outlets.
Berlusconi and a "contract" with the Italian people
Success on Sunday would also  bring control over  the  state television
networks - a concentration of   power unprecedented in  any major Western
democracy.
His  frontmen, such as presenter Emilio Fede, at the TG4 television
station,
have no doubts about the voters' verdict.
"I hope, I am sure, that Mr Berlusconi will win the election," Mr Fede
says.
"I tell you, I am sure."
Now Mr Berlusconi is the target of satire - for his pledges
to improve law, and his readiness to blame illegal immigrants for
crime.
A comedienne who impersonates him, Sabrina Guzzante, says
if he becomes prime minister, television shows like hers will
be finished.
"The problem is that he has the private television and the public
television, so it means you cannot do anything different from his
point of view," she says.
"So for this reason, everybody's saying that is a dangerous situation."
The mysterious origins of  Mr Berlusconi's huge fortune are under
scrutiny -
a  book based on fraud squad investigations  is a   bestseller.
Other questions are also being asked about the compatibility of
heading a government and a business empire.
"There is a conflict here, in that it's very hard to own companies that are
worth billions of dollars, and make the crucial decisions of economic
policy
of a country that affect those companies," says Professor Franco
Pavoncello,
of John Cabot University in Rome.
Corporate know-how
But former Foreign Minister Antonio Martino says Mr Berlusconi would
be ready to take drastic action to avoid such a conflict of interest.
Conflict of interest? Many voters are unworried
"My view about Berlusconi is that he is a man who has a single
purpose - singleness of purpose is his main characteristic," he says.
"Now he wants to be prime minister he will be even willing to sell
everything he owns in order to achieve that goal."
Mr Berlusconi intends to run Italy with the same corporate know-how
as his AC Milan football club.
As for the corruption cases against him, which investigators are still
pursuing,
he says he is the  victim of left-wing  magistrates.
But the questions about conflict of interest are the most pressing.
Failure to divest, to sell up, could cost him credibility, especially in
the
eyes of fellow European leaders.
But many Italian voters don't seem to care.

 But many Italian voters don't seem to care.
 Stiamo facendo ridere il mondo intero.
Saluti.
Artemisia Gentileschi