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To: goldworldnet who wrote (42360)	4/18/2005 12:38:38 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 173976

Bush's #1 Iraq War Ally In Europe Falls Berlusconi to resign as prime minister Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi will resign and form a new government to strengthen his struggling conservative coalition, the foreign minister said Monday. The move will end Italy's longest-serving postwar government. Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini made the announcement in a statement after a meeting of coalition leaders in Rome. Berlusconi had been under pressure to resign since the coalition suffered a crushing defeat in a regional vote earlier this month. Last week, a small centrist party headed by Deputy Premier Marco Follini pulled its ministers out of the Cabinet and demanded that Berlusconi form a fresh government with a new platform. Fini said that at Monday's meeting Follini "renewed (his) commitment to a new Berlusconi government" and Berlusconi made the "ensuing decision to hand in his resignation to the head of state." Berlusconi is set to meet with Italy's president later Monday. (AP)