Word: scalfaro
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...weight has been taken off," the Italian media magnate said after resigning. But Berlusconi, who just yesterday dared the country's lawmakers to vote him out, is following through on threats to immediately press for a new election he hopes will return him to power. President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro's more ceremonial role in politics now becomes pivotal: he'll decide whether to grant Berlusconi's elections request -- or call on politicians to form a new parliamentary majority without him. The balance tipped against Berlusconi's seven-month-old government last week, when former key ally Umberto Bossi's Northern...
...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 into bribery allegations involving his own firms...
...ready to concede. If any of the five parties in his government switched allegiance, he said, it would be "a Judas," and he would ask for new elections; he would make no deals "over the heads of the electorate." He had the agreement of President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, who warned party leaders against forging the kind of Byzantine deals that produced paralytic governments in the past and distorted the voters' expressed will...
Only a quarter of the nation's electorate voted in the municipal balloting, but the dismal showing of the ruling parties may force President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to call for new parliamentary elections, possibly as early as next February. Last week's winners were already beginning to reposition themselves as new coalition builders attractive to the mainstream. Said the Northern League's secretary, Umberto Bossi: "A center party does exist in Italy, and it's called the League." Countered Achille Occhetto, leader of the Democratic Party of the Left: "We are a great alliance of progressive forces that can confront...
...greets each new barbarism. Protesting Borsellino's death, unions staged a nationwide 10-min. work stoppage. Jailed Mafia bosses were clapped into a remote island prison, denied visitors and the use of phones from which they run their businesses. At the Mass for Borsellino's bodyguards, President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and Prime Minister Amato had to be hustled out of the packed cathedral by uniformed police to protect them from the jeering crowd. "Get the Mafia out!" the throng cried, referring to a system that has allowed hardened criminals to humiliate and terrorize the country for decades...