"Yet by far the most interesting thing about the Italian prime minister is this: Italians keep voting for him. The somewhat ragged coalition he leads—Il Popolo della Libertà, the People of Freedom—won a decisive general election victory in 2008 and trounced the opposition in European parliamentary elections in June 2009. Whether or not you agree with his daughter, who says he 'will go down in the history books as the longest-serving and most loved leader in the history of the Italian republic,' you cannot argue with the fact that he has been the dominant force in Italian politics since he first became prime minister in 1994. But why?"
Anne Applebaum in Slate attempts to explain the political success of Silvio Berlusconi.
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