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To: tejek who wrote (172201)	7/21/2003 6:37:40 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578552

I also didn't realize Italy was that conservative. It's not...Italy is a very strange place politically. The country is a multiparty checkerboard where no single entity holds enough of a majority to govern...so each ruling government has to be a coalition of two or more political parties. When the party holding the majority among the coalition slights one of the member parties, it withdraws its support for the coalition and government collapses....and they start all over again forming a new coalition, holding elections, etc...It's a zoo. For years the Christian Democrats held the largest share of the power. Years of mismanagement and corruption have eroded their base. Berlusconi is a member of a political party that is a vague morphing of Mussolini's original fascist party. Al