Never a dull moment in Italian politics!

Certainly never a dull moment in Italian politics! The recent Italian general elections gave us some rather interesting “politicians”. One of the many is the “transgender” Vladimir Luxuria. He/she can now not only be called an “honourable member” of the Italian parliament but he/she can also go to movies for free and do a lot of fun things (at the taxpayers’ expense). Good’ol Vlad also appears regularly on a tv music show, a sort of an Italian version of MTV. Vlad usually wears the most outrageous clothing. The latest news in the Corriere della Sera, Italy’s most influential national daily, regards one of Vlad’s political opponents, Ms. Daniela Santanche’, of the “National Alliance” party (the neo-fascist one). It appears that Ms. Santanche’ accused Vlad of only and always wearing pants. This sent Vlad a wee bit ballistic, and so he/she challenged Daniela to a "fashion" duel: Vlad showed up at work the other day (ie, the Italian parliament known as “Montecitorio”) wearing a skirt. He/She was in the courtyard of Montecitorio and called Daniela to come and have a look at his/her legs. Daniela was apparently most impressed and uttered: “We certainly have the longest thighs of the entire parliament”! And then Italian politicians/journalists complain that Italy isn’t taken too seriously abroad?