  The recent 2013 Italian elections are over and the situation that President
Napolitano will have to settle soon for the formation of the new government is
not the simplest one. After twenty years of bipolarism (more or less
effective), where we were accustomed to a tight battle between two great
political coalitions, the center-right and center-left, now, in the new
Parliament, we have four political formations. But is it really this result, as
it would seem to suggest our common sense, the prelude to an inevitable phase
of ungovernability? Can a Parliament with changing majorities in Senate to be
as efficient as a Parliament with a large majority in both the Houses? In this
short note we will try to answer these questions going beyond common sense and
analyzing the current political situation by means of a scientific, original
and innovative instrument, i.e. an "agent-based simulation". We show that the
situation is not so dramatic as it sounds, but it contains within itself
potential positive aspects, as long as one makes the most appropriate choices.
