Monti Works ‘Seduction’ Among Italy’s Unwilling Candidates

Caretaker Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti introduced members of his Civic Choice party at a rally and presented them as unwilling candidates who accepted parliamentary nominations as personal sacrifice.

“I don’t believe I have great powers of seduction and in particular of political seduction,” Monti said yesterday in a speech in Bergamo, Italy, as he addressed the candidates in attendance. “It was greatly satisfying to see how you were ready to give way, how you were ready to waver already at my first telephone phone call.”