Casini warns Italy of shift to right
Financial Times
02 Aprile 2008
'Five lost years' if Berlusconi gets in UDC leader rejects two-way coalition
In the constantly shifting sands of Italian coalition politics, one man more than most knows Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister, and warns that Italy faces a shift to the right and five more wasted years if he returns to power in April's electipns.
Pier Ferdinando Casini, leader of a small Catholic party, had been an ally and even potential successor to the 71yearold billionaire businessman for 14 years, but their politicai divorce in February has led to some bitter recriminations.
"Certain characteristics he always had are now worse," Mr Casini says in an interview with the FT, accusing Mr Berlusconi, a twotìme former prime minister, of "regression …
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