Given the political void, it’s obvious that Berlusconi is going for broke, with early elections. But it’s one thing to cause the fall of a government. It’s another thing to dissolve parliament. The main ones not wanting that are those that by now are commanding us from the outside and who are only interested in getting us to pay the interest on our debts, without even suggesting the possibility of a renegotiation. Here’s where Napolitano comes into the picture. In this Theatre of the Absurd, everything depends on an 88 year old man that should recognise the failure of the political hypothesis on which his second mandate was founded.