Francesca Pascale, the girlfriend of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi

Francesca Pascale, the girlfriend of former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, leaves Palazzo Grazioli (Berlusconi's residence) on June 25, 2013 in Rome. Silvio Berlusconi's furious reaction to a conviction for paying for sex with an underage prostitute suggests a belligerent centre-right will intensify pressure on the coalition government to favour its policies, particularly concerning the hot-button issue of tax, analysts said Tuesday. Political observers had warned a guilty verdict could provoke the capricious former premier into pulling support from Enrico Letta's grand coalition, for failing to offer him legal protection.

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