Nasce il PDL, visto dal “Times”

In questo Weekend “nasce” ufficialmente il PDL, il partito di Berlusconi. Ed ecco cosa ne pensa il Times, giornale inglese. “Figli di Mussolini”?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article5983437.ece

Equally, others say that Forza Italia is really a one-man show, and once Mr Berlusconi is gone it is the former Fascists who will come to dominate. “I am not immortal,” the Prime Minister admitted this week. “If only.” Coming from the man who once called himself the Jesus Christ of politics, it was quite an admission

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Sons of Il Duce

— The Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI) was founded in 1946 by supporters of Benito Mussolini. It contested its first elections in 1948 and won six seats in the Chamber of Deputies

— From the 1950s to the early 1970s it averaged about 25 deputies

— In 1960, when the MSI formed part of a parliamentary majority, protest riots led to the fall of the Christian Democratic Government

— In 1983 the party gained 42 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, and four years later Gianfranco Fini was elected as its leader

— In 1994 it refashioned itself as the Alleanza Nazionale and joined forces with two centre-right parties. The alliance swept to power in elections that year, capturing 13.5 per cent of the vote and gaining six Cabinet posts

— Though the governing coalition was short-lived, the Alleanza Nazionale returned to government in 2001 when Fini was appointed Deputy Prime Minister

— Fini has tried to distance the party from its Fascist heritage, disowning statements he made calling Mussolini the greatest statesman of the 20th century