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I failed to mean what I was thinking, sorry.

The problem is, that even if a change is carefully planned, due to a "too balanced" situation, the law proposal might bounce endlessly between the two sides of the parliament. The system is flawed enough to wait months before enacting laws, if such a situation arises. I'm not secretly auspicating a dictatorship, but over here the meaning of "opposition" does not only imply an intellectual analisys of incoherences/errors of the ruling party, but might also intend "do your best to bring them down and plant your claws on the throne".

This new government has many exposed contradictions within itself, and might lean too much its flank to internal fractures or exploitation. Even religion is an unclear matter: a part wants to support catholicism, the other one want to keep a laic stance.

This is why such a balanced result is bad: the government isn't giving many signals of unity, and the opposition is big enough to surpass it if someone jumps ship, and it's not too unlikely that certain radical groups might act in such a way. Afterall, the radical party got an unexpected 2.5%: they even weren't sure which side to join before January, if I recall correctly. Then they joined the left wing coalition, which won yesterday by about 25000 votes. Had the radical party joined the right wing coalition, Berlusconi would have been our governor for other seven years.

And this is a train of thought everyone in Italy should follow, as if the government collapses, both rightwingers and leftwingers will feel the crash of our economy. Sadly, fanaticism is abundant here. There's people really happy that left won (even if it won in such a way), and people happy that right wasn't massacred, and I sincerely don't think either of those facts will lead to a "safe" future. Thus, cheering for anything, right now, is the signal of miopy.

All this very IMHO :)