Italy Bersani: PM job 'only for mentally ill'

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Source: BBC News

The head of Italy's centre-left bloc has hit an impasse in his efforts to form a government and said only a mentally ill person would want to govern Italy now.

Pier Luigi Bersani was rebuffed by the anti-establishment Five Star Movement on Wednesday.

His Democratic Party narrowly won the elections last month but lacks the upper house majority needed to govern.

Without progress fresh elections could be held in June.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21956855

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1. To paraphrase the late, great Hunter S. Thompson

when the going gets crazy, the crazy turn pro. What the sane recognize as a catastrophe, megalomaniacs see as a career opportunity. T'was ever thus.