Het is lente

It's spring! The weather has suddenly changed (all weather changes are sudden here) for the better, and it's more sunny. But, most important of all, there are more daylight hours. Also, the daylight saving time, although it forces to wake up earlier, means that the sun goes down one hour later, and that's such a pleasure.

I'm getting ready for my return to Italy. On the 9th, there are general elections. And they are very important, because they are a unique chance to pose an end to the Berlusconi premiership. Berlusconi is a great liar: he lies, but in a very convinving way. He points out all the opposition's misdeeds, and he never cares about his, which are exactly the same, only 10 times greater. His government is very much committed in laws that influence him directly, yet he is very good at shifting the focus away from that fact. He loves to choose as government partners some very conservative, when not outright racist, people, which have a great deal of influence in government policy, yet he is the frontman, so those people can act unseen and undisturbed, while he gets all the attention himself. And he simply does not care about the reputation of clown he earned abroad, because those people do not have right to vote in Italy.
I don't think his opposition is the best possible opposition, but i do think that things would improve tenfold if he stops being the prime minister.