Italy's Berlusconi wants centre-right to form government with centre-left support - Senator


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  • Thursday, 15 Mar 2018

Forza Italia party leader Silvio Berlusconi casts his vote at a polling station in Milan, Italy March 4, 2018. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini

ROME (Reuters) - Italian centre-right leader Silvio Berlusconi wants to convince his coalition allies to try to form a minority government with support from the centre-left Democratic Party, a senator from his Forza Italia (Go Italy!) party said on Wednesday.

A national election on March 4 gave no one group enough seats to form a majority, starting a power struggle between the right-wing coalition, which won the most seats, and the anti-system 5-Star Movement, which emerged as the biggest party.

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