Four members of Italy’s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s cabinet have resigned. The New York Times reported that losing these four members will deepen Italy’s political crisis and is expected to bring down the government in a matter of weeks as well as lead to early elections. Conflict began within the government in July when Gianfranco Fini, co-founder with Berlusconi of the center-right People of Liberty Party, left the party.† Gianfranco accused the Prime Minister of running an anti-democratic party.† Earlier this month, Fini† announced that the trouble was beyond† repair and threatened to remove his four ministers from the cabinet if Berlusconi did not resign.
