Italy is facing perhaps its most important elections since 1948, when voters confirmed the emergence of Italy’s new republic from the wreckage of Mussolini’s fascist regime. On April 9-10, Italians must choose between Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right government and the center-left bloc headed by Romano Prodi. But neither man seems the sort of decisive figure that overcoming Italy’s bleak economic predicament demands.
Italy is facing perhaps its most important elections since 1948, when voters confirmed the emergence of Italy’s new republic from the wreckage of Mussolini’s fascist regime. On April 9-10, Italians must choose between Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right government and the center-left bloc headed by Romano Prodi. But neither man seems the sort of decisive figure that overcoming Italy’s bleak economic predicament demands.