ROME: Billionaire media tycoon and former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Friday suggested a centre-right minority government could be formed after the inconclusive March 4 national polls.
“We are talking about a government made up of forces that won the election,” he told supporters in the northeast city of Trieste ahead of elections due on Sunday in the surrounding Friuli Venezia-Giulia region.
Earlier on Friday, Berlusconi said he was “certain” that his ally Matteo Salvini, leader of the far-right League party, would not abandon the centre-right alliance after Sunday’s regional election as some papers had reported.
The elections in Friuli are expected to strengthen the hand of the League which became the biggest party in the centre-right alliance after it won nearly 18 percent of votes in last month’s national ballot compared with less than 14 percent won by Forza Italia.
