贝卢斯科尼阵营的溃败与国际货币基金组织前总裁斯特劳斯-卡恩在纽约的离奇性丑闻本无直接联系，但在后者被捕之后，意大利的女性和年轻选民当即动员起来反对贝卢斯科尼阵营（讽刺的是该阵营的米兰市长恰好是位女性 ） 。
No direct link exists between that result and the dramatic Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal in New York, but in the immediate aftermath of DSK’s arrest, Italian women and young voters decisively mobilized to defeat Berlusconi’s party (led in Milan, ironically, by a woman).