Fit to run Italy?
The known facts about Silvio Berlusconi, never mind the unanswered
questions,
rule him out for high office, even though his countrymen seem poised to make
him prime minister
IN ANY self-respecting democracy it would be unthinkable that the man
assumed
to be on the verge of being elected prime minister would recently have come
under investigation for, among other things, money-laundering, complicity in
murder, connections with the Mafia, tax evasion and the bribing of
politicians,
judges and the tax police. But the country is Italy and the man is Silvio
Berlusconi, almost certainly its richest citizen. As our own investigations
make plain (see article), Mr Berlusconi is not fit to lead the government of
any country, least of all one of the world's richest democracies.
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