15 Quotes by Franco Pavoncello

The outcome might very well be that together with (Berlusconi?s) defeat this time we may also see his disappearance from the political scene.

He has always used his style of leadership of really being laid-back as a strength. He might have to change his style a bit and be more forceful.

There is a hard reality in this country that people try to gloss over. Politics can get really nasty.

What we are witnessing is a political meltdown. This is a serious blow for the government, and it's not clear it can get though this unscathed.

He is too much of a realistic businessman that if he really felt the situation was desperate, or unsalvageable, he would probably look for an exit strategy. The fact that he is doing this is significant, in my mind - that he feels he can probably change the situation.

I think he would fall under a lot of national and international pressure to resign.

I sensed a lot of mental and intellectual fatigue in Berlusconi. He surprised me. He's too much of a good salesman to make a statement like that at the end of a debate.

It seems to me that the idea of not recognizing the result is losing strength by the hour.

That in my opinion would be a serious blow in the sense that he would be a convicted prime minister in office,