Berlusconi's survival hopes finely balanced

2010/12/12 12:18:28 @Reuters: World News

ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's hopes of surviving a crucial no confidence motion in parliament hung by a thread on Sunday as political commentators predicted the outcome could be decided by as little as a single vote. The 74 year-old media tycoon has gone through one of his toughest years in 2010, an "annus horribilis" of scandal and bitterness that has badly undermined his leadership and left his struggling center-right government in disarray.
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