BERLUSCONI HAS A DREAM

Although this is to be verified, Berlusconi always claims that he has 65% support in Italy, the “best” in the world. However…..at the last regional elections he got less than 30% of votes and his party less than 40%.....

But yesterday, M. Ben Ali of Tunisia was re-elected for the fifth time with 89.62 of votes. And at the last municipal elections, held on 11 October, Putin’s party got 66%of the votes. Massive fraud in both cases, but what counts is the result.

This may be in fact the reason why Berlusconi flew to visit his friend Putin (a great democrat, as defined by Berlusconi himself) to prepare for the elections to be held next year in Italy: just to learn how to cheat (for TV coverage and control they are already equal…)

As mentioned before, according to Berlusconi Italy is the country with the largest press freedom in the world. A pity that in spite of that, there are still newspapers who criticize him. Why so ?

Indeed, while discussing with Putin about how to better organise elections, he may have got also some advise as to how to improve the “press freedom” so that there is no criticism any longer in the press.

And possibly, his next official trip will be to Morocco. There, the newspaper Akbar Al Ayoum , the third paper in Arabic in terms of sales, is closed since two months for publishing a cartoon showing the Moroccan flag beyond the portrait of a King’s cousin. The reason ? offense to the flag (possible imprisonment of 3 to 5 year….). And a request for a consistent amount of money by the King’s cousin, typical way of killing newspapers (Berlusconi is a master in this). And the Director of the daily Al Michaal was condemned to a one year imprisonment for publishing information, made available by the royal palace, about the health status of the king. Finally, two days ago, Le Monde was seized and not distributed for a cartoon and an article relating the trial of the Akbar Al Ayoum newspaper. The reason : “systematic attacks to the national symbols, under cover of freedom of expression, will never be tolerated”, as stated by a high rank dignitary.

True that Morocco is not alone: on 21 October, the Le Monde’s journalist Florence Beaugé was prevented from entering Tunisia to cover the elections….

Berlusconi dreams when reading such news….how the hell these little guys in a developing country manage it while he, the great leader of a powerful country cannot ? Something must be done before the next elections.



Cartoon: http://www.cartoonboeken.nl/lid/jean/berlusconi.jpg