Italy of Values

"This is just a masked trick to save the prime minister," said Felice Belisario, of the opposition Italy of Values party. Former anti-graft magistrate Antonio Di Pietro called it "a criminal game."

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"I am mortified," said Antonio Di Pietro, a former magistrate who now heads the Italy of Values party. "The state was dealing with the Mafia to guarantee public peace while faithful servants of the state were being killed."

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"Soon there will be an implosion and Berlusconi will fall with his finger raised, doing nothing right up to the last minute, just like Saddam Hussein," said Antonio Di Pietro, the leader of the Italy of Values party. A spokesman for Mr Berlusconi's party accused Mr Di Pietro of "poisoning"

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Massimo Donadi, a parliamentarian for the opposition Italy of Values party, said: "To listen to the head of the Italian government denying having had relations with prostitutes at an international summit is embarrassing and surreal. "

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"The fight against illegal immigration is one thing, but the lack of respect for human rights is another," said Dario Franceschini, leader of Italy's opposition Democratic Party. The disappearances are "yet another tragedy that could have been avoided, a tragedy that weighs on our nation's shoulders," said Leoluca Orlando of the centrist Italy of Values party. Right-wing parties backed Berlusconi's controversial deal with Libya, through which migrants from around Africa head for Europe, and helped introduce a new law in August that made illegal immigration a crime. "Let's not forget that Italy hosts millions of foreigners out of humanitarian concern,"

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Women who want an abortion "can now choose to use a pharmacological method that is less invasive than surgical intervention," said Silvana Maura, an MP with the opposition party Italy of Values.

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"It's shameful to open up the hall of the Senate to someone who doesn't know what human rights are," Stefano Pedica, a senator from the Italy of Values party, said yesterday.

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"The use of state aircraft to transport musician friends is not a private matter and is typical of this behaviour which sees state institutions as private property," said Antonio Di Pietro of the opposition Italy of Values party.

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"This vice of using state aircraft to fly to football matches, Formula 1 races or parties at the seaside has got to stop because it is known as embezzlement," said Antonio di Pietro, head of the opposition Italy of Values party, vowing to raise the subject urgently in parliament.

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The Italy of Values party said: "What we are seeing is a reshuffling of funding already approved by the previous centre-left government and the shifting of funds from projects like a high-speed rail link to the Messina bridge."

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