Scilipotism is an Italian neologism recently appeared in the spoken language after a member of the Parliament, Dr. Domenico Scilipoti http://it. .org/wiki/Domenico_Scilipoti, elected in an opposition party (Italia dei Valori) was apparently persuaded to leave its party and start supporting the Berlusconi Government coalition in December 2010.
The neologism it seems describing such a sudden transformation of political ideas and, particularly, of Parliament position (in Italy known as il salto della quaglia - the jump of the quail ) for uncertain personal reasons but, certainly, for the advantage of the new political side. A group of "scilipotists" made the Berlusconi Government surviving for about one more year.
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