Politics comes to a halt for Berlusconi, an unprecedented stop: the House and Senate in mourning for 7 days

Agendas of ministers and Prime Minister emptied, a week without votes in Parliament, party meetings postponed. The neon lights of the Mediaset tower light up to greet the patron “Silvio”, the late “dad”. And the headlights of politics go out, for the last bow to the monarch of Arcore. It had never happened before, never like this. Because the scene bypasses the rites of the Republic, is placed outside the catalogs of state ceremonial, goes to cover with unusual protocols always modeled on the institutions, not on the people, and each time treated with lazy reluctance or disguised reluctance.