PRIME Minister Mario Monti's government hangs by a thread as Silvio Berlusconi prepares to return to the fray, with his supporters arguing that Italy is economically now far worse off than before.
"We believe the experience of the Monti government is over," Angelino Alfano, leader of Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PDL) party, told parliament on Friday.
But he said the PDL wanted an "orderly conclusion" to the legislature, meaning the party will not try to bring down the government.
PDL MPs on Thursday abstained from confidence votes in the government in protest at Monti's policies, but stopped short of bringing down the executive they have supported until now.
"We backed the government thinking that things would get better, but they got worse," Alfano said.
"Public debt has risen, there is no development strategy, GDP has gone down, industrial production has plunged, unemployment has gone up, taxes have gone up, the construction sector and the property market have collapsed," he said.
Alfano said on Thursday Berlusconi would run for office again although the 76-year-old three-time prime minister himself has made no announcement.
It would be his sixth bid to become prime minister in two decades of political life for the billionaire media tycoon.
"I am being assailed by requests to return to the field as soon as possible," Berlusconi said in a statement Wednesday after meeting party leaders.
"Italy today is on the edge of a cliff. I cannot allow this," he said, adding: "The situation now is far worse than when I left office last year."
Renewed political tensions in Italy spooked the financial markets but commentators said a major crisis was unlikely since Monti's government was already coming to an end.
President Giorgio Napolitano has also sought to reassure the public, saying these were only "pre-election tensions" ahead of a general election expected to be held in March or April next year.
The yields between benchmark Italian and German 10-year sovereign bonds meanwhile widened to 330 points on Friday from around 300 points on Monday.
A poll by the SWG Institute on Friday gave Berlusconi's PDL just 13.8 per cent of the vote - compared to the 38 per cent it won in the 2008 general election.
Anda sedang membaca artikel tentang
Monti teeters as Berlusconi party attacks
Dengan url
https://tikusinternet.blogspot.com/2012/12/monti-teeters-as-berlusconi-party.html
Anda boleh menyebar luaskannya atau mengcopy paste-nya
Monti teeters as Berlusconi party attacks
namun jangan lupa untuk meletakkan link
Monti teeters as Berlusconi party attacks
sebagai sumbernya
0 komentar:
Posting Komentar