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Party Time For Giorgia? We Don’t Need More Women Leaders Like These
Published Sep 20, 2022
Updated Sep 20, 2022
Politics
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Politics
Published Sep 20, 2022
Updated Sep 20, 2022
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Party Time For Giorgia? We Don’t Need More Women Leaders Like These
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This autumn’s electoral campaign in Italy is a disturbing trip down memory lane.
Silvio Berlusconi, who turns 86 at the end of the month, is now busy addressing his potential new voters on TikTok. Meanwhile, the Cadorna train station in Milan is full of video walls flashing his latest slogan, Scelta di campo (“choice of field”) — echoing the infamous soccer-inspired Scendere in campo (“take the field”) phrase that announced his political debut in 1994.
"Now I turn to those over 18. To ask you what? To introduce me to your girlfriend? Not at all! To ask you to vote for me,” says the octogenarian in one of his TikToks. With such off-putting stabs at humor, you wouldn’t think that his political career almost ended with a 2013 conviction for having sex with an underage prostitute while
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