Noto ke i compagnos, sempre prontissimi ed informatissimi sulle scorribande del periodico Britannico contro il Banana, siano quatti quatti su questo recente articolo..
Mo' vi faccio un riassuntino...
1. Poco di simile al primo governo (quello ke fece riforme)..questo puo' essere il piu' comunista/sinistro governo mai avuto in Italia;
2. Ad eccezione del grande Padoa-Schioppa, altri ministeri cruciali sono andati a comunisti ed ex-compagni. Id est, si mette male per le riforme promesse.
3. Prodi voleva 2 ministri in meno..ne ha 5 in piu'/3 di donne invece sono meno di 1/4..
4. la vergogna di Mastella...
~ Hyde
The Economist
A left-leaning government that may not last long
AS HE unveiled his government on May 17th, Italy's new prime minister,
Romano Prodi, noted that it was "the same day [of] the same month" as ten
years earlier, when he had named his first cabinet. There the similarities
end.
His government may be the most left-leaning that Italy has ever had. Of
its 26 members, one belongs to the Green party, which in Italy stands well to
the left; two are communists; and nine (including the foreign minister,
Massimo D'Alema) are Democrats of the Left, heirs to the former Italian
Communist Party. As expected, the finance ministry will go to a distinguished
independent, Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa. But the other main economic
portfolios-industry, employment and transport-are all going to communists or
ex-communists. That scarcely augurs well for the radical (ie, liberal) reforms
that Mr Prodi's centre-left alliance had promised.
The prime minister, a mildly progressive former Christian Democrat, may
have wanted a different outcome. But the communists and Greens made impressive
gains in last month's election. Mr Prodi, who has a one-seat majority in the
upper house of parliament, the Senate, is in no position to resist demands
from smaller parties in his coalition.
In the tough bargaining that went into forming his government, at least
two hopes were cast aside. Mr Prodi had wanted fewer ministers than his
predecessor, Silvio Berlusconi. He ended up with two more (and five more than
in 1996). He also vowed that a third of his team would be women. In fact, less
than a quarter will be; and five of the six women in the team will be without
a cabinet portfolio.
One of these second-class ministers is a spirited former European
commissioner, Emma Bonino, who will be Europe minister. She had wanted the
defence ministry. Her failure to get it shows the problems created for Mr
Prodi by his narrow victory-and suggests that his government may not last all
that long.
Some on the far left opposed Ms Bonino's appointment as defence minister
on the grounds that she is not against war. But the real reason she was
blocked is that another, newly powerful figure wanted the job. Clemente
Mastella, a former Christian Democrat, leads a party on the right fringe of
the governing coalition that took less than 1.5% of the vote. But it has three
vital seats in the Senate. And in the past it has signalled that it is ready
to desert the centre-left if its demands are not met.
To break the deadlock, Mr Prodi gave defence to a close associate,
Arturo Parisi. But to pacify the troublesome Mr Mastella, he handed him the
even more prestigious justice ministry. Mr Mastella expressed delighted
surprise. As well he might: for he is utterly unsuitable. More than once, he
has chided prosecutors for their impertinent curiosity about political
corruption. Only three months ago he was questioned at the headquarters of the
national anti-Mafia directorate about his friendship with a man who admitted
to helping the Sicilian Cosa Nostra's former "boss of bosses", Bernardo
Provenzano, when he was on the run.
Francesco Campanella, a town councillor in Sicily who turned state's
evidence after being investigated, has acknowledged giving Mr Provenzano
documents that helped him to go abroad for medical treatment. A year earlier,
Mr Mastella was a witness at Mr Campanella's wedding.