I'm indignant. Berlusconi is not at all involved in this. I don't know if this was motivated by elections but you have to emphasize the timing.

One can only conclude that they (magistrates) want to interfere with the election campaign.

each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.

blatant partisanship to use the Elections Division to their advantage.

This is not that unusual for there to be fluctuations from one year to another, especially the year after elections. Political talk radio is dependent on the excitement of the political scene.

It is understandable that the market came off so close to the elections.