[P2P-F] rival to berlusconi?

[Michel Bauwens]

very useful, thanks Marco

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 2:44 PM, M. Fioretti <mfioretti at nexaima.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 14:13:24 PM +0700, Michel Bauwens (
> michelsub2004 at gmail.com) wrote:
> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/19/
> > AR2011011906191.html?sid=ST2010121305002
> >
> > any comments from our italian friends?
> >
> >
> > Nichi Vendola, a gay, ex-communist governor, becomes the unlikely rival
> to
> > Italy's Berlusconi
>
> Hi Michel,
>
> you caught me in the act of adding the following comment to that WP
> article:
>
>    Vendola can be very pragmatic and take decisions very similar to
>    those of the Berlusconi Cabinet when he sees the need for it, see
>    my article about his deal with Microsoft:
>
>
> http://stop.zona-m.net/2010/11/italian-left-leader-signs-berlusconi-like-deal-with-microsoft/
>
>    and the follow-ups tagged with "Vendola" to that story on the same
>    blog
>
> Personally, what disturbs me in that story is the _method_ and
> _attitude_ (because he may do it other times as he did this
> one). Unlike others I do find funny, so to speak, that he signed a
> deal with Microsoft, but I am NOT scandalized by it. (successful)
> politics also needs pragmatism and balance. No problem about that. But
> I really don't like the fact that, in that case, Vendola basically
> didn't answer critics: he just completely changed topic. To see what I
> mean, just read the "Don’t change the subject, please!" part of
>
> http://stop.zona-m.net/2010/12/how-should-we-manage-the-vendola-puglia-microsoft-deal/
>
> (also explained in
> http://stop.zona-m.net/2010/11/nichi-vendola-explains-but-does-he-his-berlusconi-like-deal-with-microsoft/)
>
> More in general... my absolutely personal feeling right now, without
> any rigorous analysis to back it up, is that how much success he'll
> have on a national scale depends on how many votes he'll attract from
> the many Italians who stopped going to vote years ago
>
> Marco
>



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