Ah yes, those Italian elections continue to surprise.
Last Sunday John Oliver took a look inside “The World’s Craziest Election”, and some were surprised to find that it had nothing to do with America.
Here we are eight days later, and this one continues to deliver some really zany storylines.
Before we show you that video below, which does contain at least two nipples, we should set the scene with the help of NewsAU:
Italian voters have delivered a hung parliament, flocking to anti-establishment and far-right parties in record numbers and casting the euro zone’s third-largest economy into a political gridlock that could take months to clear…
Earlier, a topless Femen activist confronted the former prime minster and leader of Forza Italia party Silvio Berlusconi at a polling booth on Sunday, jumping on a table as he was about to hand in his ballot and displaying “Berlusconi, you’ve expired” on her bare torso.
Berlusconi, 81, turned away and was escorted out. He can’t run for office because of a tax fraud conviction, but he has tapped European Parliament President Antonio Tajani, considered a pro-European moderate, as his pick if the centre-right is asked to form a government.
Here’s how that one played out:
What was Berlusconi’s reaction? He has had so much work done that it’s actually tough to tell:
I guess he is used to seeing breasts in his face after hosting all those bunga bunga parties.
You can read more about the drama over in Italy here.
[source:newsau]
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