Italy in new crisis as Center-right Ministers resign

Rome: Center-right Ministers were "crazy Act" of encouragement from party leader Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's fragile coalition Government, a fresh political crisis after what Saturday called Prime Minister Enrico Letta BSS reported escape.
All five Ministers of the people of freedom (PDL) party took the decision at the urging of Berlusconi said Angelino Alfano, Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of the PDL.
The flamboyant former Prime Minister as "unacceptable" a demand of Letta on Friday after Parliament next week released express support for the Government, in a bid to stop has a crisis, that the bickering Coalition had pushed the brink of collapse.
Letta's Government was uneven a two month stand-off after an inconclusive parliamentary election in February, and while the Government has launched reforms, it has hobbled the tensions was.
Letta won the confidence of financial markets by the Administration to hold together the unlikely left right coalition of center left Democratic Party (PD).
But a brewing revolt among Berlusconi's backers cooked on Thursday, as they threatened to withdraw legal problems about the media mogul.
A Parliament Committee vote if eject, after he sentenced to one year in prison for tax evasion, a sentence was Berlusconi, 76, from the Chamber, which was upheld by the Supreme Court in Italy in August prepared.
The vote which last consequence would be a long-running left conspiracy to destroy his political career said his allies.
Letta asked Friday a cabinet meeting with approval of the most important measures said the recession hit the budget deficit, that no further legislation would be enacted until the political crisis was resolved.
The Cabinet had convened to determine, as a controversial postponed planned increase in value added tax, but the meeting ended in disarray amid the escalating tensions because of Berlusconi's tax fraud conviction.
Therefore be preceded by the VAT increase by 21 per cent to 22 per cent, with effect from Tuesday, as economists worry that it will dampen consumption.
In promoting the PDL Ministers resign, Berlusconi said they should not "complicit in the latest trouble imposed on Italians from the left".
' Berlusconi is the value added tax as an alibi use '
He added: "the Prime minister's decision yesterday, State action, leads to the increase in the value-added tax, freeze government is a serious breach of the Pact."
Letta said: "to justify his crazy and irresponsible action tried fully protect of his personal interests, Berlusconi is... with the value added tax as an alibi." In a short statement, he added: "Italians recognizes such a big lie... and to the sender send back."
Three times Prime Minister Berlusconi, who was sentenced on February 1, the set is at home or non-profit work in this way. But the most scathing punishment for the billionaire, Italian politics has dominated for the last two decades in or out of power, that he will henceforth be for public office.
The next steps on the political chessboard are uncertain with the PDL Ministers expected to give back. Letta could try count, another Government on various defections and the support of left-wing groups.

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