Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi delivers a speech from the stage in downtown Rome November 27, 2013. REUTERS/Alessandro Bianchi
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's centre-right launched a fierce attack on the speaker of the upper house on Wednesday over his decision to have the Senate join a criminal case as an injured party against former Premier Silvio Berlusconi.
The attack adds to an already poisonous atmosphere in parliament just as the parties are about to begin parliamentary debate to seek agreement on a new electoral law aimed at ending Italy's chronic political instability.
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