Italy has a new Government, brand new Ministers ready to serve the national cause, the State and the Country. And thanks to the wiser and wiser statesman Silvio Berlusconi Italians witnessed Mara Carfagna’s appointment as the Minister for “Equal Rights”.

Equal rights, hmmm? No doubt, she is the right woman for the job. Yes, in February 2007 during the seminar “Woman, Life and Family” she stated that the State has no reason to recognize homosexual couples “since they are constitutionally sterile” and for those still unaware of this: “to love each other the essential requirement is being able to beget” (1). Pure wisdom isn’t it?

During an interview she described herself as an anti-feminist, as she believes that liberty depends not on independence and freedom but on rules, on discipline. In fact it is common knowledge that discipline plus rules equals liberty. (2)

Now who is that nut or fool who still thinks that, maybe, this nice and wise woman is not the rightest person to care about equal rights?

For those who are never satisfied and still have doubts, this lady’s resume is the crystal clear proof that she has got all the right requirements to hold this office: in 1997 she got the sixth position during Miss Italia, the national Italian beauty contest. Oh, c’mon I’m pretty sure when she was younger even Hillary Clinton was among the first six girls in Miss America. Don’t you know that a beauty contest is the basis to become a qualified politician or Minister?

From 2000 to 2006 she co-hosted the entertainment TV show “La domenica del Villaggio” on Rete4 (network Mediaset, Berlusconi’s) and in 2006 “Piazza Grande”.

In the course of the years “Mara La Bella” (this is her nickname) has also been guest of several entertainment shows and she has posed partially nude for a calendar and for magazines.

In 2007 during the evening of a television award show, Berlusconi told her “If I was not already married I would marry you immediately”, this caused the anger of the present first lady who sent a letter to one of the most important national newspapers, La Repubblica, demanding his husband’s apologies for embarrassing her.

Ah l’amour! Italians don’t need to watch soap operas on TV anymore they just have to buy a newspaper.

Citizens are waiting in trepidation for Mara La Bella’s next move as Minister: social aids for the starveling Miss Italia competitors? Bra dispensers in high schools?

When the appointment of one of the Big Brother competitors as the Minister of Communication?

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