Berlusconi Ally Says Government to Collapse If Ex-Premier Ousted
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Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta’s government will collapse if his Democratic Party votes to end Silvio Berlusconi’s mandate as senator, a senior ally of the three-time premier said.
“If in a private company, a partner reports another one or tries to get rid of him, the business doesn’t exist anymore,” Renato Brunetta, chief whip of Berlusconi’s People of Liberty party in the parliament’s lower house, said in a phone interview today. The PD “would provoke the government’s fall,” he said.