ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta said his government could last until 2015 despite escalating tensions in the left-right coalition ahead of a Senate vote on whether to expel former premier Silvio Berlusconi from parliament.
The vote in the upper house Senate, due this month, has become a focus for renewed squabbling between the centre-right lawmakers of Berlusconi, who has been convicted of tax fraud, and their centre-left coalition partner led by Letta.
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