Press Interpreter

04/11/06 -- ROME - The result from the polls is "a victory of Italian democracy," and now the main challenge has arrived for the center-left: to govern. This is the thought of the leader of the center-left, Romano Prodi. "We've won after a close race," said the Professor [Prodi], "but with a majority in both the Camera* and the Senate, allowing us to govern with the coalition we represented during the campaign." At this point, Prodi also responded to a question from reporters who had approached him at Ulivo** headquarters: "I'm waiting for a phone call from Berlusconi because this is the custom of modern democracies." In fact, a call had already come in from the Quirinale***: "[The call] with Ciampi," Prodi emphasized, "was purely institutional."

10/11/05 -- The investigation centers on the three transsexuals who were in the apartment that night. Discharge from the resuscitation unit possible Wednesday

TORINO - Lapo Elkann's* condition is rapidly improving. He was admitted to Torino's Mauriziano hospital yesterday after a drug overdose. The latest medical bulletin says as much, explaining that he's still in a pharmacological coma and that "further verifications to clear up the prognosis as soon as possible" are expected today. The rest of the medical news should arrive around 5:30 in the afternoon. "Everything is going very well, we're very calm, and you'll see good news in tomorrow's bulletin. I'd imagine you can gather that from the context," Carlo Marino, the director general of the Mauriziano hospital, affirmed after briefly entertaining questions with the director of the Resuscitation center, Giuseppe Spina. Medical sources have also mentioned a minor crisis that came about this afternoon and was overcome, defined as one typical of a situation like young Elkann's.

09/29/05 -- GOVERNOR FAZIO UNDER INVESTIGATION SINCE AUGUST -- Call to appear in the Antonveneta case prepared. Meanwhile, the Superior Council renews its trust in him. -- ROME -- Following swirling rumors, it's now official: now a call to appear has also been prepared for Fazio. The governor has been investigated since the beginning of August for official abuse. This is the criminal hypothesis made by the Procura of Rome in the realm of the investigation on the Roman implications of the BPI's hike on Antonveneta. The overseer of Palazzo Koch's management, Francesco Frasca, is also on the list of those being investigated for the same crime. The news, which the pm said was kept secret for nearly two months because maximum reserve was desired, arrives on the day a majority of the Superior Council of the institution, on Via Nazionale, reaffirms its faith in the governor.