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Originally Posted by Chris
It was. 
What I was trying to say was, you may well need a replacement PM if the incumbent steps down, but the solution to that surely is not to pressurise the incumbent into stepping down. Hold elections instead, and allow the Italian people to choose their new PM at the ballot box. What we in fact have in Italy is an outrider from Brussels who only a matter of days ago wasn't even in the frame as a potential Italian PM, getting the top job and getting as many days as it takes to organise an election to do whatever Brussels, or rather France and Germany, tells him.
I truly think the world has failed to grasp yet the enormity of what is happening in Europe right now. Seldom has the undemocratic influence of the European Union and its financial system been laid so bare. No matter how bad things get, sovereign nations should not be having their heads of government imposed by external powers. One by one, the southern European members of the EU are becoming vassal states of a select few of the northern ones. It is very, very worrying indeed. |
Well, I don't quite share your cynicism.
Either way, we'll have to see what, if any, controversial legislation gets passed between now and the upcoming elections.
For now though: Silvio's gone, and that's got to be a good thing!