Just as it is for murder mysteries, you have to take a step back to understand what’s happening. Go back to that evening in spring, it wasn’t dark, nor was it stormy, but three people met up to decide on the outcomes for the legislature. Each one of them had something to gain from the game of poker.
For Napolitano it was re-election, and the certainty of the destruction of the tapes of his conversations with Mancino, for Bersani it was the office of the President of the Council for the PDminusL, and for Berlusconi it was the certainty of impunity. On this investigative detail, it’s worth stopping to ponder.