L’Economist sposa supinamente le tesi del giustizialismo più infangante all’italiana e le spaccia al suo pubblico britannico sinistrorso e comunistoide. Spetta. Che forse già l’Economist è un po’ di destra. Abbestia. Neoliberista.
Ma allora…
Bettino Craxi, a fallen prime minister, is in favour again
A FUGITIVE from justice and the most thoroughly disgraced politician in Italy’s modern history, Bettino Craxi, a two-term prime minister, died in Tunisia in 2000. He had fled there six years earlier after losing his parliamentary immunity from arrest. Shortly before that, protesters outside the luxury hotel he used as his home in Rome had humiliatingly pelted him with coins.
As leader of Italy’s Socialists from 1976 to 1993, Craxi was among the orchestrators of a system in which the main parties, and their officials, fed off bribes extorted from companies bidding for public contracts. The cost of those kickbacks was routinely added to the price of the work, so this system contributed to the huge public debt under which Italians and their governments now labour. By the time he died, Craxi had been sentenced to a total of 11 years for corruption and illegal party funding, and been convicted or indicted in five other cases.