Word: berlusconi
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi today said he would stay in office to face a no-confidence vote in parliament, rather than resign and plot a political comeback, as one of his chief aides predicted yesterday. Instead, the media magnate warned Italian lawmakers in a speech that voting this week to oust his seven-month-old coalition would turn voters against them. If he loses the no-confidence vote, Berlusconi said, he'll ask President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to call another election to select Italy's 54th government in 49 years. The controversy revolves around a high-profile criminal inquiry...
...Italian Cabinet official said today that beleaguered Prime Minister and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi will resign Wednesday because he doesn't have the parliamentary support to survive an imminent no-confidence vote. But Deputy Prime Minister Giuseppe Tatarella said the canny Berlusconi is planning the move to clear the way for new elections, staking his future on the belief that voters will sweep him back into office and silence his critics. "The government will resign tomorrow and tomorrow begins a long election campaign," Tatarella told state television, referring to Wednesday's parliamentary session. Berlusconi led his tenuous, three-coalition Forza...
Analysts speculated about at least two scenarios. The first was the simplest. Within the coming week, the budget bill, which has passed the Chamber of Deputies, goes before the Senate, where the Berlusconi government lacks a majority. If the bill is defeated, the Prime Minister may carry out his threat to resign and force new elections. If it passes, coalition partner Umberto Bossi, head of the Northern League, may resign or switch allegiance to protest against Berlusconi's leadership...
Italian magistrates told Silvio Berlusconi he is under investigation for corruption charges, even as the Prime Minister was host to an international conference in Naples on organized crime. Berlusconi allegedly authorized the payment of bribes to tax officials by officers of Fininvest, a $7 billion media-and-retail conglomerate he formerly headed and still owns. The Prime Minister denied the charges and said he would continue his six-month-old administration, but he also offered to sell part of Fininvest, something he had previously refused...
ITALY: Can Berlusconi Remain in the Saddle...