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The Italian parliament will today vote on a no confidence motion against interior minister Angelino Alfano, a member of Silvio Berlusconi’s People of Freedom party after the Shalabayeva rendition scandal. But according to La Repubblica, Prime Minister Enrico Letta’s Democratic Party (PD) has already decided it will vote in support of Alfano to save the governing coalition.
A large faction of the PD is in revolt over the decision, and Repubblica’s editorial demands the party itself must sack Alfano, who insists he was not informed about the Italian police raid against Kazakh dissident Mukthar Ablyazov.
Silvio Berlusconi needs the Letta government to last enough to bring Italy out of recession. And to do this he needs the PD not to become unmanageable, which would happen if Alfano was to continue to be in government.
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