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Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi might lose immunity
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During the summer of 2008, Italian opposition party Italia Dei Valori lead by Antonio Di Pietro asked the population to sign a petition calling for a referendum against the Lodo Alfano immunity law, issued by Italian Neo-Liberal government.
The law was implemented to save prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and Italy's four most senior office holders from being persecuted for corruption and other crimes. Petition signing points were placed over several Italian cities and they were promptly attended by hundreds of thousands of residents holding ID cards and making the initiative a great success.
21. Carter-Reagan-Bush: The Bipartisan Consensus
Halfway through the twentieth century, the historian Richard Hofstadter, in his book The American
Political Tradition, examined our important national leaders, from Jefferson and Jackson to Herbert
Hoover and the two Roosevelts—Republicans and Democrats, liberals and conservatives. Hofstadter
20. The Seventies: Under Control?
In the early seventies, the system seemed out of control—it could not hold the loyalty of the public. As early as 1970, according to the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center, "trust in
government" was low in every section of the population. And there was a significant difference by
