Berlusconi falls out with top ally
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Your support makes all the difference.Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his main coalition partner fell into a public shouting match on yesterday, inflaming simmering tensions that threaten the stability of Italy's conservative government.
In a rare open debate among the top rungs of Berlusconi's Party of Freedom, right-wing leader Gianfranco Fini, a co-founder of the party in 2009, criticised the style and substance of Berlusconi's leadership.
"I don't like the house that I helped to create," he said. No sooner had Fini taken his seat than Berlusconi, who had already addressed the hall, got back up and laid into his rival.
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