Secondo questo testo dell'Ansa, a Verona, l'avvocato Guariente Guarienti
ha manifestato l'intenzione di tappezzare i muri della citta' con dei manifesti
che inviteranno i cittadini a raccogliere la somma necessaria ad acquistare
un biglietto di sola andata per Tahiti, accompagnato da un buono per un soggiorno
nel migliore albergo della Polinesia. Il tutto in omaggio, per incoraggiare
Silvio Berlusconi a partire, realizzando cosi' una sua vecchia promessa relativa
al proprio futuro dopo un'eventuale sconfitta alle prossime elezioni. Dice
l'avvocato veronese che sarebbe profondamente ingiusto se il presidente del
Consiglio dovesse raggiungere Tahiti a proprie spese dopo un evento molto
piu' fortunato per noi che per lui.
'Berlusconi to Tahiti' bid
Whip-round to help premier meet election loss 'pledge'
(ANSA) - Verona, February 9 - An Italian lawyer is having a whip-round to
make it easier for Premier Silvio Berlusconi to carry out a pledge - later
retracted - to 'sail to Tahiti' if his re-election bid fails .
Verona lawyer Guariente Guarienti plans to plaster the city with posters
on Friday urging citizens to pay for a voyage to the Pacific dream island
.
Guarienti said the trip would include a two-week stay at the "best hotel
in Polynesia," the Tahiti Intercontinental Resort, where he said Berlusconi,
a former cruise ship crooner, could entertain himself and others with some
of his self-penned ditties .
The lawyer got the idea for his lark from Berlusconi's short-lived September
promise, if defeated, to "sail to Tahiti in a fine boat and thank my lucky
stars for saving me from responsibilities" .
"I believe it's deeply unfair," the posters say, "that the prime minister
should go to Tahiti at his own expense after an event that will be much luckier
for us than for him". Guarienti then tells his fellow citizens how to contribute
to three bank accounts, entitled Let's Send Him To Tahiti, which he has opened
at Verona banks .
He stresses that he only needs enough money for a one-way ticket .
Guarienti, a former election candidate for the post-Christian Democrat People's
Party, is expected to donate any money he gets to charity .
The premier came out with his jocular post-election exit strategy on September
4, saying he was "ready to sacrifice himself" for another five years but
would sail off into the sunset if he lost .
Two days later he made it clear it was just a joke and he had "serious plans"
for life after politics .
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