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The Teflon Prime Minister.(International)(Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi withstands various scandals and stays in power)(Brief article)
Byline: Barbie Nadeau
If you believe Italy's billionaire Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, he's the most popular leader in the world--a claim he "proves" using his own media and his influence over state television. According to certain Berlusconi-controlled polling sources, his approval rating is more than 75 percent, besting even Barack Obama (at 65 percent). "Only Lula [da Silva, of Brazil] tops 60 percent ... so mine is a record high," crowed Berlusconi on a recent business trip to Naples. Unfortunately, independent polls don't concur: they put the Italian leader somewhere between 40 and 60 percent, according to Ispos and IPR marketing, respectively.
Still, that's shockingly high, given that doctoring one's polls would probably get a leader canned in most of the rest of Europe. The question is, how does Berlusconi, 70, and now in his third term, survive all his ...
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