Berlusconi Lies About Election Fraud (what a surprise!)

[blitzen]

http://www.repubblica.it/

Una serie di "malintesi" hanno fatto credere che i voti in ballo fossero 43 mila. Ma nelle corti d'appello se ne stanno esaminando molti di meno. E le assegnazioni sono divise equamente tra i due poli. Il Viminale non fornisce spiegazioni.

My rough translation: "A series of 'misunderstandings' gave rise to the impression that 43,000 votes were in question. But the Courts of Appeal are examining many fewer. And the results are divided equally between the two sides. The Ministery of the Interior is not commenting."


[on edit, to explain this a bit: Berlusconi is claiming that 43,000 votes are suspicious. He lost by 25,000. In fact the courts are looking at far fewer, and B. is not picking up any votes. Bottom line: he's toast, unless he tries a coup d'etat.)

[Suich]

1. Isn't this the first Italian election

with "touch screens?"

:shrug:

[rocktivity]

2. Can you roughly translate

"If you lie down with dogs, you might get up with fleas"?

:headbang:
rocknation

[wake.up.america]

3. Una traduzione molto buona.

[blitzen]

5. Grazie mille! n/t

[wake.up.america]

10. Se vi trovate giù con i cani, potreste alzarsi con le pulci.

[Kutjara]

4. Can you imagine the crap that Prodi's government...

...is going to get from the Berlusconi-owned media? They will be on him from day one and won't let up until he's a smoking wreck.

Berlusconi is a narcissistic megalomaniac and he will never forgive Prodi for beating him. Italian politics will be a disaster for the next decade.

[lostexpectation]

6. Prodi must have done deals with the companies to get into power

although Im sure the companies were tiring of berlusconi

[Kutjara]

7. Good point, but...

...I still think ol' Burlesque-oni has a few tricks up his sleeve. He's a dirty bugger and isn't above manufacturing scandal for his own ends.

[Lexingtonian]

8. I would have been surprised

if either side picks up a margin change even 3,000 votes net from that amount of ballots.

Smirking B was toast as soon as Prodi officially got that fourth Senate seat on expat votes. But a thief always thinks everyone else is stealing shit too.

It's good fun watching Prodi play now. He's evidently hard at work getting internal unity on what to do with the horrible mess Berlusconi is leaving and who is going to do what. It wouldn't surprise me if he withdraws Italy from Iraq within a week of assuming office.

[blitzen]

9. It is fun. I liked Prodi's comment yesterday about B. : "He should go home

Deve andare a casa

[tocqueville]

11. here are the disputed votes : only 1 659

annulate = cancelled (non valid)
da decidere = to be decided upon
all unione = for prodi
all cdl = for berlusconi
esaminate etc... = examined probably going to berlusconi