Thousands of Italian women marched in Italy carrying signs reading ?Vecchio Porco!? (Old Pig!) and ?Berlusconi Indegno? (Berlusconi is Unworthy!) to protest the behavior of Italy?s Prime Minister, not to mention his claim that he ?makes every woman feel special?. Apparently not all Italian women agree.
Berlusconi is under investigation on suspicion he had sex with a 17-year-old Moroccan girl and used his office to cover it up. He denies wrongdoing. Berlusconi has claimed that he is ?not worried? about a judge?s order that he face trial on charges he paid for sex with an under-age woman and abused his office to help release her from police detention for theft. The center-left opposition is calling for early elections, and political analysts say the government is not likely to last long. Time will tell if Berlusconi lasts in office or not. With the help of the media, much of which he controls, he has survived scandal before..
Prosecutors have focused on Berlusconi's villa in Arcore, just outside Milan, where he reportedly throws wild parties with young women. Recently Berlusconi commented ?For love of country I won't talk about it. Suffice to say that I am not in the slightest bit worried."
In January Valeria Fedeli, deputy leader of one of Italy?s largest unions, the Filcem-Cgil called on Italian women to march in the streets to demand respect. "Things had got so bad," she says. "We could feel how annoyed, how indignant, people were. But there had never been a national day organized by women in Italy.
Once again the Internet played an important part in rallying people to protest. Using the Internet, Fedeli and a group of fellow organizers put out a call to action and women responded in the hundreds of thousands with some estimates as high as a million women taking to the streets and piazze of Italy.
Source: http://www.amoretravelguides.com/blog/italian-prime-minister-silvio-berlusconi-indicted.php
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