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Wed 11 Nov 2009Former president criticises Berlusconi
IN A MOST unusual move, former Italian president Carlo Azeglio Ciampi has this week bitterly criticized the government of prime minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Referring to the government’s plans to force controversial judicial reform through parliament by the end of the year, Mr Ciampi said: “We live in a sad time. I never imagined that in the closing years of my life that I would be witness to such a barbarisation of politics, witness to such a systematic and crude attack on all those institutions and values in which I believed.” He was speaking to the daily, La Repubblica, this week.
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