“With the wiretap vote coming up in the autumn, Berlusconi has got a month to find 10 or so deputies,” said James Walston, a political analyst at the American University of Rome. “He will be going on a shopping spree with the Union of Christian Democrats [UDC] in his sights.”
The small UDC party is led by Pier Ferdinando Casini, a former Berlusconi ally.
Alessandro Campi traced the break-up between Fini and Berlusconi to a shouting match the two had at a conference in April, which culminated in Fini demanding “What will you do? Get rid of me?”
“Berlusconi probably never forgave Fini for challenging him in public,” he said.
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