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Feb 27, 2007
Quickie Link: Blame the Vatican for Italy's latest crisis -- By Peter Popham
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By vanrozenheim
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(Rome, Italy) - Three senators for life, including Giulio Andreotti, a powerful Christian Democrat politician for more than 40 years, now aged 87, had been expected to vote for the government but instead one voted against and two abstained. These were the votes that sank the government. The suspicion quickly arose that Andreotti and the others had voted as they did, not because they were opposed to Italy's philo-American foreign policy (which they ardently support), but to bring down the government: the reason being that Prodi had insisted, despite strenuous opposition from the Catholic Church, on bringing in a law to legalise civil unions.
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