Vocal Voices

As a vote of no confidence in the deputy leader is called due to the handling of an expulsion of a fugitive Russian Oligarch's family.

Will it bring down the government and allow the comedians one more crack at government???

Tune in next week for the next instalment of this gripping thriller of EU stability and Growth....

Also from Reuters:

The strength of the combined government majority in parliament should ensure Alfano survives the vote but the case has cast a harsh light on the tensions within the government that have stood in the way of effective economic reforms.

So it could be that Letta's centre-left Democratic Party's (PD) support for the People of Freedom party's (PDL) Interior Minister, and Deputy PM, Angelino Alfano, could go some way to help them to work together.

It certainly could.

But they will stumble from crisis to crisis until someone blinks if this one does not do it.

The last election was not a ringing endorsement of the Italian political classes. Rather the reverse and everyone knows it. The Italian people now know they really can radically change the face of politics. The manic actions of the current coalition are to deny them that chance until they have "forgotten" their power.

The goal of the comedians is to pull down government and give people another chance to make the change they wanted last time.

Hardly a match made in heaven.

Eventually someone will blink.

Not today - 226 to 55

Maybe Italy will now get on with being governed by the votes and wishes of the people and not the imposition of a technocrat PM by the troika.