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Silvio Berlusconi’s recently re-established Forza Italia party walked out of the ruling grand coalition on November 26 and voted against the 2014 budget in a confidence vote called by the government.
Despite the party’s opposition, the budget was passed by a comfortable margin of 171 to 135 votes in the Senate, tried to block. Corriere’s editorial adds –
It’s not only a vote of no-confidence in the government. It’s the literal application of the phrase “Apres moi, le déluge”. [...] And to hell with the country.
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