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> How can you have a president like that

Did people really think that Berlusconi was the president of Italy?






Wasn't he?

Unless you mean president !== primer minister, but that would be such a futile remark in this context.


That's exactly what I meant. A lot of people in the US don't follow politics in Europe, but those who do are unlikely to think Berlusconi was a president when he was actually a prime minister.

Prime ministers in Europe have functions of US Presidents. Equivalent of European presidents I think is missing in the US.

Prime ministers in Italy are also called Presidente del Consiglio dei Ministri, therefore technically yes. He was holding the executive power, and although Italy is a parliamentary republic, most of the laws are driven by the Government.

Mainly the people that voted for him.



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