A Roman Catholic bishop called for the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi, the first time that such a senior figure of the Church has done so, adding to a growing sense that the crisis over the beleaguered Italian Prime Minister’s private life is out of control.
Monsignor Domenico Mogavero, Bishop of Mazara del Vallo in Sicily and a former senior official in the Italian Bishops’ Conference, said that Mr Berlusconi should “consider whether it is opportune to resign in the interests of the country”.
The Prime Minister was further criticised by the Church when Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco of Genoa, head of the Conference, warned against “men drunk on a delirium of their own greatness, who touch the illusion of omnipotence and distort moral values”.
A petition to the wives of the G8 leaders asking them to boycott the summit has nearly 7,000 signatures since the appeal began on Tuesday, the organisers said.
Mr Berlusconi appeared defiant as he made a visit to L’Aquila, the centre of the Abruzzo earthquake in April and the venue for the G8 summit.
He claimed that his popularity rating was 61 per cent, “an absolute record in the West” despite “everything that has been written and said in recent days”.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6579299.ece – June 26, 2009
europa @ June 27, 2009
Barbara Montereale, la cui automobili è bruciata nei giorni scorsi per un misterioso incendio doloso, la quale dice al Times che quando fu invitata in Sardegna a metà gennaio “c’erano un sacco di ragazze che non si conoscevano tra loro” e parla di un’atmosfera “quasi competitiva”.
La Montereale conferma quando affermato in precedenti occasioni, cioè che per la sua presenza in Sardegna ricevette 11 mila euro, mille dall’uomo d’affari pugliese Giampaolo Tarantini, che l’aveva accompagnata, e 10 mila come “regalo” da Berlusconi.
http://www.repubblica.it/2009/06/sezioni/politica/berlusconi-divorzio-10/giornali-stranieri-27/giornali-stranieri-27.html
europa @ June 27, 2009