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Middle finger from Bossi when asked on early elections
Asked by reporters on Friday if the break with Gianfranco Fini would lead to early elections, the Northern League’s colourful leader Umberto Bossi of the Northern League, raised his middle finger in response
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Berlusconi split with one of his major allies on Thursday night he called on Fini the charismatic and powerful speaker of the lower house of Parliament, to step down, saying at a news conference that Fini’s positions were “absolutely incompatible with the founding principles” of the governing center-right People of Liberty coalition, which the two formed in 2007.
Fini said Thursday that he refused to resign and contended at a news conference on Friday that the prime minister lacked “a liberal concept of democracy.”
The standoff is the most serious political crisis that Berlusconi’s government has faced since it was elected in 2008, after two years out of power. Although Berlusconi said the government was not at risk of falling, it remained to be seen how the tense situation would play out.
A former neo-Fascist Fini has moved in recent years to the political centre, where his vocal defense of Italian institutions has won him plaudits from many Italians but left him increasingly at odds with Berlusconi.
Marcel Pace Asciak •
Michael001, Thank god for Bossi and the Lega Nord. He holds the balance of power in Italy. The Lega gave Italy a stable government for the last 4 years. Something the Italian Left never managed to do. The Left are dying to get back into power which they can't as long as Berlusconi is PM. Besides that middle fingure was directed at the Left.. so eat your heart out.
Albert Zammit •
.... need we say more? Just look at the poor man? Hit has he was with so much ill-health, why shouldn't he spend his time thanking his God to have been spared from early death, instead of giving us a show about how disgustingly bad-mannered and unstatesmanlike he is! Biex iridu jghabbu l-Padania u l-Gvern ta' Berlusconi!
