Silvio Berlusconi resigned as prime minister of Italy yesterday but pledged to form a government with a new programme in an attempt to resolve the political crisis that has engulfed him.
The 69-year-old leader was forced into the move as a way of holding together his faltering four-way conservative coalition, which was threatening to collapse and pitch the country into snap elections.
Mr Berlusconi had been under intense pressure from two allies, the Union of Christian Democrats and the National Alliance, to make sweeping changes to his administration after suffering a heavy defeat in regional elections.
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