Berlusconi reveals hope of return (BBC) {seeks to overturn election}

[eppur_se_muova]

Former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has written to more than 20 world leaders saying he expects his election defeat to be overturned, media reports say.

The magazine L'Espresso has released a copy of one of the letters - confirmed by Mr Berlusconi's office as genuine - written to the Spanish prime minister.

He says he hopes an inquiry into what he calls voting irregularities will see him returned to office.
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Mr Prodi's government was sworn in last week, after winning votes of confidence in both houses of parliament.

His narrow defeat of Mr Berlusconi in the April parliamentary election was validated by Italy's supreme court - which confirmed Mr Prodi had won the lower house by a margin of some 24,000 votes. In the Senate, 158 seats went to Mr Prodi's bloc, 156 to Mr Berlusconi's and one to an independent.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5017582.stm

Yecch, he really is a ** clone. Hope there's no Scalia on the Italian Supreme Court.

Say, does anyone remember "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment from Fantasia?

[marmar]

1. Silvio, don't go away mad....

Silvio, just go away... :yoiks:

Jeez, these neocons don't go away quietly, do they?

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

2. He Tried Fraud, But It Wasn't Enough.

He was so certain that he had managed to pull off a FRAUD on the Italian people, a la King george in '04, that he never expected this eventuality.

He is going to do everything he can to maintain power, even though he truly went down to defeat.

This whole world sucks, and these criminals who get power and control over our lives have got to be punished and punished good. I hope lay & skilling SUFFER. I wish they were put in jail now, instead of allowed to roam the planet as free men.

[agincourt]

3. He thinks he owns that country,

and that he is not accountable to the ballot box. Sounds familiar for some reason.

[bennywhale]

27. He almost does. He's certainly the richest

Italian on the planet and owns half the media there. He's also further to the right than the neo-cons, he's a regular old school italian fascist. He just hides it behind his grin

[movonne]

4. Probably he is being helped out by lots of neo-cons around the

world...

[Cha]

5. You fascist nutjob..

you remind me of the fascists over here.

[NYC]

7. Zidzi, what was the name you adopted for Berlusconi?

I can't remember. It was something Italian. About a month ago.

[Cha]

8. OMG! I can't

remember shite! It just came and went, sorry.:) I'll think about though, maybe something will pop up.

[NYC]

9. It began with a C.

Yes?

That's the way my vague memory works. First I get the opening letter...

Then -- tune in a few days from now. I may have remembered.

[Tarc]

12. Probably not what you're looking for, but

I've referred to him as Mini-Duce on occasion. :)

[NYC]

18. Suitable, but not the word we're looking for.

I hope one of us remembers.

[Cha]

15. Okay, thanks! I seem to

remember a "C", too. I got it from something else I had just seen a DU..it was Italian for something they were talkin' about..oh, it was something bersculini had called the voters that wasn't very nice!

And I used the plural and someone corrected me and gave the singular for bersculini! Was that you?

We need someone who speaks Italian!

[NYC]

17. Yes, I gave you the singular.

Now, I wonder the singular for what? It hasn't come to me yet.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. I wonder if all the broadcast stations he owns over there are starting to

pimp this story, about his illegitimate defeat.

[AnOhioan]

10. Silvio needs to get clue.....

The Italian people spoke loud and clear...they do not want his particular brand of idiocy.

[Matilda]

11. Got to hand it to right-wingers -

if they can't win by fair means, they'll win by foul.

[PurityOfEssence]

21. Or they'll just take it from you

When you're firmly convinced you deserve power and whatever you damn please, mere elections aren't of any import.

[Eurobabe]

13. Give it up nutbag, you LOST!

[Captain Anarchy]

14. Burlusconi...

Sigh...Does this guy realize what a joke he is? I mean he's just so over-the-top absurd...like a couple months ago when he told reporters that the Chinese use babies for fertilizer...joke's over, Silvio. Time to fade quietly into the background while you still have some semblance of dignity.

[Arugula Latte]

22. Welcome to DU, Captain!

:hi: :toast:

[cliss]

16. I'll tell you what, DU:ers..

Silvio Berlusconi can come to my house. I'll let him rule over our home. He can be the supreme ruler, as long as he wants.

That will take the pressure off of the LBN, where we are subjected to all these new antics about the little Danny De Vito lookalike.

[AX10]

19. Silvio couldn't steal the election through fraud, so now he will...

make up shit as an excuse to overturn the election.

[Orsino]

20. I'm sure * will get right on that.

He's all about overturning elections on suspicion of voting irregularities.

[martymar64]

23. Silvio's New name - Il Ducebag

n/t

[Hoping4Change]

24. The most delicious irony is that Berluscsoni made the

unprecedented move of giving Italians who immigrated to others countries not only the right to vote but to have reprentatives from outside Italy to represent them in the Italian government. Berlusconi was convinced they would vote for him. The irony is that the expats voted against him. Had Berlusconi not done this he would have won because he had just enough votes in Italy to be re-elected.

[Judi Lynn]

25. Wonders never cease. What a wonderful story.

It just kinda grabs you right there.

[Hoping4Change]

26. LOL

:rofl:

Thanks I needed that laugh.