Italy's head of state has appealed to politicians to call a "truce" so as not to embarrass the country as it hosts next month's G8 summit. President Giorgio Napolitano did not specify which issues he wanted political parties to stop fighting over, but debate has been dominated in recent weeks by a series of scandals over the private life of the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi. "It would be good, from here to the G8, given the delicacy of this huge international event, to have a truce in these controversies," Mr Napolitano said.
President Giorgio Napolitano did not specify which issues he wanted political parties to stop fighting over, but debate has been dominated in recent weeks by a series of scandals over the private life of the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi.
"It would be good, from here to the G8, given the delicacy of this huge international event, to have a truce in these controversies," Mr Napolitano said.
There's a berserk nightclub host running the country who's suspected of white slavery (importing Eastern escorts to "dress up as Santas" for his late night philandering). There's a major health and hospital scandal in Bari that regularly supplied flesh to a person indicated as a "final user." The Council President is caught having dinner with two top Supreme Court justices just before they're supposed to deliberate on the constitutionality of one of his ad personam laws granting him total immunity before the law. The government is slamming through legislation with confidence votes that will institute private militia and make "clandestinity" a crime. Another law will practically prevent prosecutors from using wiretaps and make it impossible to report a crime in the press until there's a trial.
To hell with G8. The only controversy is this scoundrel's deathhold on the state and its institutions. Let the press and the opposition do their job while they still can.
