ROME (Reuters) - Members of Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right party on Sunday openly warned they would bring down the government if their centre-left coalition allies voted next month to expel the former prime minister from parliament.
Relations between Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PDL) party and Prime Minister Enrico Letta's Democratic Party (PD) are close to breaking point ahead of the vote in the Senate on whether to expel the 76-year-old over his tax fraud conviction.
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