Sylvio Belesconi is now officially the ex priminister of Italy he has, finally, three weeks after losing the election he has conceded that he has been beaten by his 'insane communistic Stalin loving opponent' interestingly one of the many insane things he said during the election was "I am the Jesus Christ of politics, I sacrifice myself for everyone" this is interesting because Stalin also fancied himself as a bit of a Jesus Christ he also shares many of the same mercurial personality traits with Belesconi so I think for that and any number of other reasons the country is well rid of him however I suspect that he may make a come back sooner rather than late as the election was so close that no one could possibly form a viable government out of it thus they will have to call another election and then it will be round " Jesus Christ versus Stalin" although I may add that Italy coalition system of government may prevent the necessity of a second election.