Monday, February 14, 2011
Berlusconi refuses to resign, dismisses protest
Activists of Ukrainian womens'' movement FEMEN shout and throw their underwear during a protest, called "Italiy is not a brothel," in front of the Italian Embassy in Kiev.
Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said he had no intention of stepping down and dismissed a weekend demonstration by women across Italy over his involvement in a sex scandal.
Hundreds of thousands of women took part in rallies yesterday to defend their dignity and protest over the underage prostitution scandal that has rocked the 74 year-old prime minister's centre-right government.
Berlusconi has dismissed the investigation against him as "disgusting and disgraceful" but he has come under pressure from groups including the Vatican and Italy's main business lobby, Confindustria, and polls show his image has suffered.
"I saw the usual factional forces mobilised against me by a certain section of the left which uses any pretext to beat an adversary whom they can't manage to beat at the polls," he said.
Hundreds of thousands of women took part in rallies yesterday to defend their dignity and protest over the underage prostitution scandal that has rocked the 74 year-old prime minister's centre-right government.
Berlusconi has dismissed the investigation against him as "disgusting and disgraceful" but he has come under pressure from groups including the Vatican and Italy's main business lobby, Confindustria, and polls show his image has suffered.
"I saw the usual factional forces mobilised against me by a certain section of the left which uses any pretext to beat an adversary whom they can't manage to beat at the polls," he said.
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