Italy Seeks Way Out of Potentially Crippling Election Stalemate

 NEWSMAX:  …The election, a massive rejection of the austerity policies applied by Prime Minister Mario Monti with the backing of international leaders from U.S. President Barack Obama to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, caused consternation across Europe…

Projections by the Italian center for Electoral Studies showed that the center-left will have 121 seats in the Senate, against 117 for the center-right alliance of Berlusconi’s PDL and the regionalist Northern League. Grillo would take 54…

That leaves no party with the majority in a chamber which a government must control to pass legislation…   (more)

EDITOR:   To paraphrase William Jennings Bryan famous “Cross of gold” speech, the Greek people are being crucified on the cross of the Euro.  Sometimes the people are smarter than their leaders.  Hungar has a way of focusing the mind.

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