There is also the long wave of the rightwing message that trumpets insecurity and intolerance enough to motivate the lazy voter to vote.

In the present situation the electoral law has disenfranchised over eight percent of those who vote. The far left parties are stupidly divided into three groups none capable of mustering votes to get over the 4% barrier. Together they total between 8 and 9%.

Berlusconi is more likely to be ousted by his own coalition. He continues to accuse the left of some sort of subversive plot when all the press is doing is their job: inform the public. If ever there were a plot it would be among his own, not necessarily for noble reasons. D'Addario candidly declared several times that she went public on her one night stand because Berlusconi did not deliver on a promise. But what goaded her on was the fact that the Bari Procura had started interrogating people near  her.

The latest news flash is that one of the women who has testified in the case has had her car burned. However la Repubblica site is temporarily down on that- perhaps too much traffic.

Further key developments- and a great thanks to the foreign press for focusing on Italy- are that the secret service oversight committee is holding hearings on the anomalous situation of Berlusconi's body guards. The Council president should be under escort of special police services that depend on the Minister of the Interior. On the contrary he is using his private guards that have been directed through the secret services. He is guarded by his own thugs, Uzis included (says a unverifiable source). When D'Addario tried to approach Berlusconi ten days ago it was these guards that blocked her off, one in particular who she recalls watched Berlusconi and her make out in front of him.

This brings up the accusations made by Berlusconi's primetime grovelers that the State had not protected him and his privacy. The oversight committee has discovered that the State has been co-opted by his own private services. It's doubtful he could have his indulged in his pathetic orgies with plenty of cocaine had his body guards been effectively appointed by the Ministry of the Interior.   

There are more details today on the burglary in Ms. D'Addario's home. She declared today that the house was ransacked and all electronic devices were stolen as well as the dress she wore the night she passed with Berlusconi. I suppose Berlusconi was afraid on Ken Starr and Monica's frozen dress.