Berlusconi, Fini scrap in public

A simmering row between Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and Gianfranco Fini, a long-time ally and speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, burst spectacularly out into the public yesterday (22 April) when the two scrapped bitterly at a live, televised party congress debate.

Mr Fini, the self-styled ‘post-fascist' who brought his Alianza Nazionale party in from the hard-right cold and toward the centre of the country's politics, was a co-founder with Mr Berlusconi's Forza Italia of t...