Saturday, April 9, 2011

The unrepentant control

Surrounded by sex scandals and lawsuits, Silvio Berlusconi, 74, three times prime minister of Italy, meets in theory attributes political leader doomed to retreat. However, the millionaire president of the center behaves as if there still for him a splendid future. "Berlusconi does not reason as a retiree, wants to remain a central figure in Italian politics, and hopes to stand for election in 2013," says psychologist Alessandro Amadori, author of Mother Silvio.

Why Berlusconi depth psychology is more female than male, on the relationship between Berlusconi and his voters. According Amadori, Berlusconi has "a manifest inability to leave the public stage, also because the Italian center fails to articulate an alternative." Berlusconi pushes a powerful motivation, the style of the rulers who encouraged even as general Juan Domingo Peron in Argentina, and Charles de Gaulle, France.

Unrepentant leadership, did not conceive the politics of their countries without their own presence, they deemed indispensable. But, short of cases stained messianism, and avoiding the totalitarian regimes that drive to continue in the scene occurs in all countries. America is a known exception, there exists the limit of two terms, which makes the president to take another way to power.

"Research shows that even in democratic systems, party leaders tend to cling to power, and must be ordered to leave, usually by forces within his own party," said Dutch political scientist Paul 't Hart, a specialist in leadership public and elite behavior. Swedish political scientist co-authored with Fredrik Bynander trial When power changes hands.

Political Psychology of the succession of leadership in democracies, remembers' t Hart to "leave power is a hard requirement for people who have spent most of his professional life to find, mix and use the power." They are their own party who usually notice to leave. In the United Kingdom, Labour Party leader, Tony Blair, won three consecutive elections and was prime minister from 1997 to 2007, the year he resigned from both responsibilities, pushed by his party.

He supported his successor, Prime Minister Gordon Brown then, but their relationship was turbulent. In general, the succession to the leadership of the party-and thus the nomination and possible election victory, has its price. "There are great political and psychological costs related to the incumbent leader, for his critics and rivals, and the party, argues Paul 't Hart.

The guerrilla war within a party generates news, but upsets voters and party faithful. " Another example: Margaret Thatcher, British prime minister of the Conservative Party, left the # 10 decision deDowning Street party. For a time, backed his successor, John Major, but the opposite Europeanism, and criticism undermined a Major in the party, government and country.

Leaders are expected to sensible reasons in terms of inheritance to be next to leave office. "But Berlusconi does not think your cycle is over, has documented 74 years, 18 years old mentally, and 65 biological" jokes Alessandro Amadori. Significant: In Praise of Folly, Erasmus of Rotterdam, is the favorite book of Berlusconi, who says Amadori, "can expect anything, he runs into key creative madness, you can still surprise." But despite this spirit, at this point even Berlusconi knows that his old scandals do not feasible plan for old age: to reach the Quirinale, the president of the republic.

Now it is again only aspire to the presidency of the Government.

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