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...governments come and go. But Berlusconi, who resigned last month after losing parliamentary support, called Scalfaro "a sphinx who minces his words" for not reappointing him. A large-scale political fight now looms, as Berlusconi presses for elections that, with recent gains in the polls, could easily return his Forza Italia party to power...
...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 Italy, or Let's Go, Italy, party to victory in March, largely on promises to clean up widespread government corruption. But the combination of anti-graft prosecutors focusing on bribery allegations involving Berlusconi companies and constant bickering within his coalition have brought the new government to the verge of disinteg
...political players weighed the risks of a Berlusconi fall eight months after national elections had decimated Italy's traditional political parties. If new elections were held, no one could be sure how voters would react. In first-round municipal balloting two weeks ago, Berlusconi's party, Forza Italia, dropped from its 30% share last June to only 12%, largely because of public resentment against his drive to shrink the bloated welfare state by reforming government pensions. During his run for the Prime Minister's job, Berlusconi had promised a new economic miracle in which a million new jobs would...
...colors. The green, white and red of "Forza Italia" and the red and yellow of Spain. Circles of people chanting songs that they all knew by heart. Cries of "Baggio" (the star Italian striker) were met in kind by total strangers. Some fans taunted each other playfully, while others gathered in circles to discuss what the strategies of the two European powerhouses should be that...
...Balladur looks beclouded in Corfu, another conservative, Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, will be beaming. The media billionaire turned politician should get a cordial greeting at his first summit, following his successful maiden foreign trip to Bonn last week. His vanity-plate party, Forza Italia, won big with 30.6% of last week's vote, a giant step up from the 21% of only three months ago in the national elections. A glum editorial in the left-leaning La Repubblica lamented that Italians "chose unanimously to shout that they wanted to be governed by Silvio Berlusconi." The landslide sparked...