http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2119208,00.html#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=WorldBerlusconi seeks votes in sex lines and swear words
From Richard Owen in Rome
HE HAS vowed to give up sex for the election, compared himself to Jesus and Napoleon, and admitted phoning late-night erotic chat lines. Nothing, it seems, is out of bounds for Silvio Berlusconi.
But yesterday the Italian Prime Minister, trailing in opinion polls before Sunday’s vote, perhaps went a step too far when he suggested that left-wing voters were “dickheads”.
Addressing the honourable Federation of Merchants and Shopkeepers, Signor Berlusconi said that only coglioni would consider voting for the centre-left opposition.
“I have too much esteem for the intelligence of Italians to think that they could be such coglioni as to vote against their own interests.
“I apologise for the crude but effective language.”