I don't know if anyone on here gives a fuck about Italy, buuut, here we go:
Two days ago and yesterday we (well, they, because I'm just 16) voted for the elections here in Italy, and now my country is in the middle of a lot of shit.
Even though Bersani won (and it should be a good thing) he won't be able to governate for long because he hasn't got the majority in the Senato, so he can't approve any law. The Movimento 5 Stelle is the party that took more votes and I don't know if I should be happy or not. Their leader Grillo just says what the people want to hear, and so he gets votes. Their ideas, even if they're right about a lot of stuff, are basically unrealizable, but I appreciate the nature of his movement, even though I would have never voted for him.
Monti (probably one of the few -if not the only- earnest politician in Italy), even though he made some mistakes in the past year, could have been a good choice, but he flopped hard. He was expected to have at least the 14/15% of votes and he had the 10%: not enough to make an alliance with Bersani's party or to be something more than just a slight influence for decisions in the parliament.
Last but not least, Berlusconi took a lot of votes, more than anybody expected, and he almost won the elections, losing by 0.5% to the Partito Democratico (Bersani's party).
I honestly can't understand why somebody in Italy would have voted for him again after him being ruining this country for 19 years.
He's a criminal, a worm who entered politics to defend his own interest and somehow managed to hypnotize the Italians. Just to make you understand how disgusting he is, in the surveys made before the elections nobody told they were voting for him, because they were embarrassed of it. This man payed 50 euros to the people who voted for him, in some areas of Italy. That's paying for votes, and that's ILLEGAL. He promised that if he won he would have refunded an expensive tax that was placed by Monti last year and that was necessary to apply. Refunding such an amount of money is, of course, impossible. But a lot of people voted for him for this reason, and they clearly didn't use even a small part of their brain. That's just nothing compared to everything he has done in the course of the years, he's implied in a bunch of legal problems for example, but you probably (especially Europeans) know this.
I totally lost faith in my country. I'm starting to think that we will end up just like Greece did, and maybe we deserved it. Sometimes I wonder if democracy is really the best option here, with the amount of ignorant people who vote and aren't mentally able to decide which is the best thing for this country.
Don't get me wrong, I love Italy, that's where I was born, but after the results of those elections I'm just... shocked. How come anybody could vote again for a criminal like Berlusconi? How come we will have to vote again because of a dumb electoral law made years ago by a party of the alliance of the man I just mentioned that doesn't guarantee the majority in the Senato to the party who wins? Just... how come?
Ok, I needed to get this off my chest, feel free to discuss, and excuse me some errors, but English isn't my main language, as you may have understood.