Sex trial leaves Berlusconi down but not out — experts
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ROME — Silvio Berlusconi is set to stand trial for paying for sex with a 17-year-old girl and then attempting a cover-up — but some experts said Tuesday the veteran Italian leader could still cling on.
“The only thing saving him is the weakness of the alternative,” Giacomo Marramao, a professor at Rome III university, told AFP.
“There is no credible political alternative on the horizon, no leader capable of uniting the opposition.”
The trial’s first hearing is set for April 6 — the latest lurid chapter in a controversial political career spanning nearly two decades in which the 74-year-old Berlusconi has survived numerous corruption and sex scandals..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110218com3.html
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