Nothing to see here folks….move along.

Wait!  The Italian general election campaign will begin to heat up in September, even though the parliamentary elections aren’t till 2013.

Remember, that other not-so-super Mario…as in Mario Monti, the Italian Prime Minister…was anointed and appointed…not elected.  Maybe the man he succeeded, Silvio Berlusconi, will run again.  We hope so.  He is such a knave but so, so interesting.  His dalliances and gaffes alone are worth the price of admission.

Although polls point toward a center-left-led coalition, Italian politics is at its most fluid state since the early 1990s and, with so many voters still undecided, it’s near impossible to call the election.  But if Silvio does throw his hat into the ring, expect more than the usual Latin fireworks in the meantime.

All we know is that elections are now important all over Euroland.

Speaking of which…let’s take a look at the Netherlands next, where a general election is scheduled for September 12…the same day as the German Constitutional Court ruling.

Chaos may reign in two neighboring nations that day.