Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the conservative People of Freedom, completed its resounding victory in the Italian general elections held on 13 and 14 April, Monday to get the mayor of Rome by the candidate his party, Gianni Alemanno. "This completes our win historic victory," said Berlusconi.
Alemanno and ends with 15-year hegemony of the left in the city of Rome, the heart of Italy. The victory in Rome was the icing on the cake for unexpected, and is only 15 days ago the candidate of the Democratic Party (PD), Francesco Rutelli, had achieved a 5-point lead on Alemanno.
According to the Italian Ministry of the Interior, Alemanno has achieved 53.5% of the vote against 46.4% of Rutelli, who was mayor between 1993 and 2001, before it was fellow Democrat Walter Veltroni, defeated by Berlusconi in the general elections two weeks ago.
"Today begins a new phase for the city," Rome, "Alemanno stated, is that right and the Christian Democrats lost the mayoralty of the capital in 1989, when Franco Carraro became the first socialist mayor of Rome .
On the Democratic side, their leader and even now the mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni, spoke of "very serious defeat" that has led to a "particularly intense and personal and political bitterness."
Grave or not (after all these years of hegemony of the Left no big deal), what is certain is that major European countries are moving away from the tenets of the left. If the change leads Germany Angela Merkel and the French Republic Nicolas Sarkozy, joined the bandwagon now, in Italy, Silvio Berlusconi.
Spain also could have done if he had won the Popular Party in general elections last March 9 and it looks like the British Conservatives can join the color change in Europe as the British Conservative Party, the first of the opposition, leads to a difference of 14 points to Labour Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, in a new poll on voting intentions published yesterday in "The Independent", days before the election for Mayor of London and the local in England and Wales.
What lessons can we draw from these changes in political trend in Europe? Many and varied, for starters we can conclude that economic and social policies of the Left in Europe have traditionally surrounded by a topical belies the reality. Europe
Do you walk toward conservatism? Do you walk in Europe to liberal policies? Since then that clearly appears is that where there is walking towards leftist policies stale, outdated, inefficient and ineffective.
Source: American Journal
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