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Spatuzza told magistrates that Graviano told him in 1994 that his protectors were Mr Berlusconi and the co-founder of the party Forza Italia, Marcello Dell'Utri.

In 2004, Marcello Vernola, 48, was elected to the European Parliament for Forza Italia, now part of the centre-right People of Liberty (Pdl) party.

Forza Italia, Italy's biggest party in the center-right ruling coalition, has openly backed a spinoff of Telecom Italia's network into a new company, possibly with the participation of state-sponsored funds, to boost broadband development.

She called the claims 'vulgar and fanciful' and said she had told her lawyer tobegin proceedings against Miss Guzzanti, whose father is an MP in MrBerlusconi's Forza Italia party.

He began to follow politics in 1968 and after starting off voting for the Italian socialist party, he drifted further to the right, eventually switching to right-wing parties Lega Nord and Forza Italia.

His party is called Forza Italia, after the soccer chant.

The 11 contributions analyze party alliances of the European and provincial elections, the urban vote as a defeat for the center right, Italian relations with the European Union, the evolution of Prime Minister Berlusconi's Forza Italia over its first ten years, pension reform, judicial reform, the politics of the middle class, and the role of the Ministry of the Economy and Finance.

The billionaire media mogul will go to the new parliament and further appeals courts to contest the outcome of the vote, said Niccolo Ghedini, Berlusconi's lawyer and a top lawmaker in his Forza Italia party.