Pro-"gay" Prime Minister resigns (Italy).Rome--Italian local elections on April 16 (Palm Sunday Palm Sunday, in the Christian calendar, the Sunday before Easter, sixth and last Sunday in Lent, and the first day of Holy Week. It recalls the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem riding upon an ass, when his followers shouted "Hosanna" and scattered palms in his path. ) resulted in loss of power for left-wing Italian Prime Minister, Massimo D' Alema. Sixty-seven per cent of the regional government is now controlled by conservative groups under Silvio Berlusconi Silvio Berlusconi (born September 29, 1936) is an Italian politician, entrepreneur, and media proprietor. . A major factor in the turning away of the electorate from the socialist coalition is reckoned to be the government's encouragement of homosexual activists who plan a week of demonstrations and meetings attacking the Catholic Church in Rome this July. Protests from the Holy See regarding the insult such an event would constitute, particularly during a Jubilee Year Jubilee year fiftieth year; liberty proclaimed for all inhabitants. [O.T.: Leviticus 25:8–13] See : Freedom , had been disregarded. Italy is now ruled by a caretaker government caretaker government n → gobierno provisional caretaker government n (Brit) → gouvernement m intérimaire caretaker government under Guiliano Amato which is liable to resist the demand to open up national elections to produce a complete change of government. (The Wanderer, Apr 27, 00) |
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