I just lived in Italy (Firenze) for the last four months , so I'm probably as qualified as anybody here to talk about this. That government is, has been, and always will be screwed up beyond belief. Since Fascism fell there have been almost 70 governments, and if you talk to some Italians they seem to long for a return to the stability that Fascism brought. They hate the political system. BerlusconI owns all the fucking media in the country and has proven Mafia ties but they all believe that they have no one better to vote for and it's true. The anti-immigrant sentiment is far stronger than any I've noticed in the US. I would not be that surprised to see a hard-right government emerge, and honestly nothing works in Italy (Just ask anyone in Naples about the trash) so maybe it couldn't hurt.