But the showgirls will stay in parliament until the next election, and the attitudes with which Berlusconi imbued the nation will not disappear overnight. The morning news on the first channel of the state-owned RAI radio network carried a report on the shenanigans outside the presidential palace from which the insults hurled at Berlusconi – “buffoon” and even “mafioso” – were tactfully omitted.
—Due frasi su un quotidiano straniero possono aiutare molto di più a capire come siamo messi. Silvio Berlusconi hints at comeback as Italy tries to form new government | World news | guardian.co.uk