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  • Berlusconi Loses Majority After Ally Asks Him to Resign

    11/08/2011 9:17:32 AM PST · by Pan_Yan · 1 replies
    New York Times ^ | November 8, 2011 | ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
    ROME — Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi of Italy won a budget vote in Parliament on Tuesday but the tally showed that he no longer has the support of the majority, a huge humiliation that raised the pressure on him to resign in the face of an escalating debt crisis that has hobbled Greece, threatens Italy and could infect the rest of Europe. The budget vote came hours after Umberto Bossi, a key ally in Mr. Berlusconi’s center-right coalition, publicly asked him to step aside for the sake of the country, the euro zone’s third-largest economy and a new epicenter of...
  • Former Communist Becomes Italy's New Head of State

    05/10/2006 2:36:51 PM PDT · by familyop · 25 replies · 585+ views
    VOA ^ | 10MAY06 | Sabina Castelfranco
    Newly elected Italian President Giorgio Napolitano waves as he leaves Italian Senate A huge applause broke out when the provisional results showed former Communist Giorgio Napolitano was elected Italy's 11th post-war WW II president. The speaker of the lower house Fausto Bertinotti later officially confirmed the result. Bertinotti announced that the new head of state had obtained 543 votes and a long applause erupted in parliament. The number of votes was well above the minimum 505 mark required for victory. He then announced the winner."I proclaim elected President of the Republic, Senator Giorgio Napolitano," he said.Giorgio Napolitano, 80, was elected...