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Titolo: 'Acceptable face' of fascism may cost Berlusconi victory

'Acceptable face' of fascism may cost Berlusconi victory
Italy's only woman candidate for PM emerges as the revelation of the 
election campaign, as she attacks the media magnate's chauvinism head 
on
By Peter Popham in Rome
Sunday, 13 April 2008
The sensation of Italy's election campaign has been a glamorous 
46-year-old divorcee with long, shapely legs, a piercing gaze, a fine 
Italian temper and the guts to say to Silvio Berlusconi: "You're not 
having me."
There is no chance she will become Italy's next prime minister; if her 
small, extreme, new-minted party manages to win seats in both houses of 
parliament it will be remarkable. But commentators on both sides agree 
that Daniela Santanche, the only woman candidate for prime minister, 
has been the revelation of an election which finishes in polling today 
and tomorrow.
Ms Santanche is the figurehead of La Destra, meaning the right, 
campaigning on the old fascist trinity of God, Fatherland and Family. 
The party's symbol is the old neo-fascist tricolour flame. It was 
founded by a nucleus of post-fascist believers after the mainstream 
heirs of fascism, the National Alliance, amalgamated with Mr 
Berlusconi's Forza Italia to form the People of Liberty party.
The hard-right content of La Destra's programme is familiar enough: the 
attacks on immigrants; the evocation of family values; the assault on 
privilege and banks' profits. But what was new and startling was Ms 
Santanche's decision to challenge Mr Berlusconi's male chauvinist 
appeal head on.
Mr Berlusconi, whose lead in opinion polls appears to have shrunk in 
the last phase of the campaign (polls are banned in the last two weeks 
before voting), has long revelled in his macho image, the sultan in his 
harem surrounded by curvaceous young lovelies, some of whom might end 
up among the ranks of his MPs, but not in government. Despite what has 
happened to the status of women elsewhere in Europe – the Spanish Prime 
minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's new government has a majority 
of women ministers – for Berlusconi, women belong in the bedroom or the 
kitchen.
His demeaning remarks about them are the stuff of legend. "The left has 
no taste in women," he mocked. "Ours are much more beautiful." 
"Ladies," he said at a recent campaign meeting, "I have a mission for 
you on election day: cook! Sweet and exquisite things, please. Bring 
them to the polling station to be examined. The boldest can try making 
a tart, the most skilful, profiteroles."
Far from being a trivial eccentricity, Mr Berlusconi's compulsion to 
dominate and belittle is at the heart of his political success. The 
reason his centre-right coalition has had much less trouble with 
splitters and dissenters than the centre-left is simple: with his 
billions he has for years bankrolled his main ally, the secessionist 
Northern League. This time around he has done the same for the National 
Alliance, putting several of its leaders on his payroll as the price 
for absorbing their party and erasing its identity. The National 
Alliance's leader, Gianfranco Fini, has bet his party's existence on 
his hopes of stepping into Mr Berlusconi's shoes.
Ms Santanche charges her ex-colleagues with prostituting themselves for 
Mr Berlusconi's favours. In a television encounter with the equally 
tempestuous Alessandra Mussolini, the granddaughter of Il Duce and one 
of the right-wingers who has gone along with Mr Berlusconi, Ms 
Santanche told women viewers: "Don't give your vote to Berlusconi, he 
sees us only horizontally, never vertically." She accused la Mussolini 
of being "Berlusconi's showgirl". "Your grandfather must be spinning in 
his grave," she spat.
For a man like Mr Berlusconi, as priapic as a character in an 
Aristophanes farce, Ms Santanche was too gorgeous to be ignored. 
"People will vote for la Santanche because she is a beautiful babe," he 
said, "without realising that by doing so they will give votes to 
someone who is certainly not a beautiful babe [his centre-left 
opponent], Walter Veltroni."
It's the fate of the lion in winter: all his billions, all his 
television channels, cannot rescue him from the mockery that rains down 
on the aged lecher, his powers visibly waning.
While his rival, Mr Veltroni, leader of the centre-left Democratic 
Party, has soberly criss-crossed the country, denouncing the Mafia and 
calling for Italy to turn over a new leaf, Mr Berlusconi has addressed 
small, ageing crowds, many bussed in to fill the seats, saying 
"anything that comes into his head", as one commentator put it, and 
bemoaning his fate. The magic has deserted him. But it took the 
flashing eyes of a beautiful woman to spell out the extent of his 
humiliation.
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 extent of his humiliation.
tradurre prego....
google sta truducendo....attendere..prego
attendere prego...attendere prego

Scriveva ted domenica, 13/04/2008:
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TRadurre tutto l'articolo?
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EU®

ted, pestando i diti sulla tastiera, ha scritto:
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In soldoni dice che la Santanche' potrebbe ficcare un manico di scopa nel
culo del Puffo.
-- 
Maurizio, a zonzo su Triumph Tiger 1050
http://www.flickr.com/photos/coccobill/2131323151/sizes/l/
"Tu ridicolarizzi me ? ah, a proposito, si dice ridicolarizzare,
non ridicolare,..." Pegasus, addì  25 01 2008 

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Traduco:
mentre il suo rivale, leader del Partoto Democratico di centrosinistra, ha
sobriamente attraversato il paese in lungo ed in largo, denunciando la
mafia e chiedendo all'Italia di voltare pagina, Berlusconi ha fatto comizi
a piccole folle di gente in età, con molte persone trasportate in pullman
per riempire i posti, dicendo, con le parole di un commentatore, "tutto
ciò che gli passa per la mente" e lamentando il suo destino. La magia l'ha
abbandonato, ma ci son voluti gli occhi balenanti di di una bella donna a
rendere la misura della sua umiliazione.
Markus
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 culo del Puffo.
beh come immagine non è male.... :D