Berlusconi says will stay ‘in front line’

(ANSA) – Rome, November 1 – Centre-right leader and media magnate Silvio Berlusconi said Friday he would stay on in the front line of Italian politics despite a looming ejection from parliament.

“No one can take from me the right to stay at the head of the movement I founded, as long as million of women and men voters want it,” the three-time premier said in an interview contained in an upcoming book.

Berlusconi recently resuscitated his first party, Forza Italia (Go Italy), and plans to lead it in the next election despite a looming ejection from the Senate on a tax-fraud ban to do a year of community service and a split between loyalist hawks and pro-government doves.