Friday, May 16, 2008

Berlusconi Claims "Right of First Night" With Female Cabinet Minister

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I am never a big fan of "greedy" heartless right wingers, but I am starting to be amused by the rather "outrageous" comments attributed to Berlusconi. Sometimes it is a matter of "speaking his mind" which can be refreshing, with all the political double speak we are exposed to.  

 

This time, I believe it was his "mischievousness" that prompted his comment to Ms. Mara Carfagna  32, a second-term Forza Italia MP, and a Equal Opportunities member of his cabinet, who was called "The most beautiful minister in the world" by German daily Bild.

Ms Carfagna has a law degree, is an accomplished swimmer, dancer and pianist, who in the past has appeared  voluptuously underdressed as the eye-candy on one of Berlusconi's TV channels, and topless in calendars.

"Dear Mara," he said to her publicly on one occasion, "I am obliged to point out to you the rule that applies inside Forza Italia, the rule of ius primae noctis", which the medieval right of a feudal lord to sleep with the bride of one of his subjects on the first night of her marriage....

 

Other Female members of Berlusconi's Cabinet are a striking Sicilian blonde, Ms Stefania Prestigiacomo, a 36 years old, catholic, married, businesswoman, as Environment minister. In 1994 she was elected to the House of Representatives as member of the Forza Italia party.

 

Other Female Members are Maria Stella Gelmini, lawyer, as education minister, and 31-year-old Giorgia Meloni, journalist, the youngest cabinet member, who takes up post of Youth policy minister.

 

I would match that lineup against ANY in the World. Beautiful, Bright, and Charming !!!!

 

Considered strong Contenders, but not appointed were  Giulia Bongiorno, a member of the former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti's defence team in several Mafia-related trials, who was thought as a prospect to become Justice Minister, and Rosi Mauro, of the Northern League, as Minister for Welfare., Flame-haired Michela Vittoria Brambilla, a former Miss Italy finalist known as "La Rossa" (the Red One), heads a network of political clubs close to Berlusconis Forza Italia party, and  Daniela Santanche,

 

Now compare Berlusconi's unrepentant comment with Barack Obama having to apologize for calling a female journalist "sweetie".

 

Berlusconi's Babes Ruffle a Few Feathers

Despite the newly acquired statesman's scowl, Italy's colourful president just can't resist a spot of mischief

By Peter Popham
Sunday, 11 May 2008

Reuters

"The most beautiful minister in the world" is how German daily Bild described Mara Carfagna, Italy's new Equal Opportunities Minister 

Italy's latest Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, is putting on a grim new face as he gets to grips with the country's economic woes. But last week he showed that he still has a keen idea of what the Italian in the saloon bar has on his mind, when he named Mara Carfagna as his minister for equal opportunities.

Ms Carfagna, 32, a second-term Forza Italia MP, hit the headlines last year when the media billionaire told her, close to a live microphone, that he would "marry her like a shot" if he didn't happen to be already married. Veronica Lario, the former actress and second Mrs Berlusconi, wrote to a newspaper that Berlusconi despises, ordering him to apologise  he did.

That did not stop him putting Ms Carfagna in his cabinet. "The most beautiful minister in the world" is how German daily Bild described her. There won't be much competition, at least not from Westminster.

However, supporters of Carfagna point out that, aside from appearing topless in calendars and voluptuously underdressed as the eye-candy on one of Berlusconi's TV channels, the young woman from Salerno has a law degree and is an accomplished swimmer, dancer and pianist.

Although Berlusconi is trying on a new statesman-like scowl, he had appeared to find something intrinsically risible about forming a government. He appointed the controversial Northern League former dentist, Roberto Calderoli, to a newly thought-up post as minister for simplification. Perhaps every country could do with one, but is Calderoli the right man? It was he who drafted Italy's present election law, later calling it a porcata (a load of rubbish).

Yet it does seem to tickle Berlusconi's funny bone to have beautiful babes in the equality ministry: the last incumbent was a striking Sicilian blonde called Stefania Prestigiacomo, who this time round has defied those who wrote her off as just a pretty face and climbed to the post of environment minister. Some girls are more equal than others in Berlusconi's eyes. They are the ones who get the call.

What exactly is the relationship between Berlusconi and his new pet? Ms Carfagna is known to have a steady boyfriend. And the first time she was invited to Berlusconi's flat in Rome's Palazzo Grazioli, it is said that she was chaperoned by her father, a diehard Berlusconi supporter, and that she entertained the company with a movement from Beethoven's "Pathetique" sonata.

But the old rogue cannot resist implying that there is more to it than that: clearly he gets a kick out of seeing his new minister blush. "Dear Mara," he said to her publicly on one occasion, "I am obliged to point out to you the rule that applies inside Forza Italia, the rule of ius primae noctis", which the medieval right of a feudal lord to sleep with the bride of one of his subjects on the first night of her marriage....

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/berlusconis-babes-ruffle-a-few-feathers-825838.html

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