Even if you don't read Italian, you may enjoy Dario Fo's election booklet (Caution: PDF weighs in at 5.4 MB).The 48-page booklet is profusely illustrated with Fo's own artwork, and intermingles satirical poetry with Fo's detailed platform.
The Nobel-prize-winning dramaturge hopes to contest Milan's mayoral elections as representative of the Union coalition (center-left); today, the coalition is holding its primary election, in which Fo is apparently running a close second. Polls close at 10 p.m. local time.
Fo's campaign slogan is "Milano: non aver paura; io non sono un moderato": ("Milan, have no fear. I'm not a moderate.") His campaign has been endorsed, amongst others, by London Mayor Ken Livingstone and the Portuguese novelist (and fellow Nobel prize laureate) Jose Saramago.
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posted 29 January 2006 01:21 PM
