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Italy's Berlusconi faces calls to resign over alleged links to erotic dancer
- From: NewsCore
- November 01, 2010 4:03AM
ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faced fresh calls to resign last night over alleged links to a 17-year-old erotic dancer.
Berlusconi, 74, allegedly invited Karima Keyek, better known as Ruby - to three parties at his lavish villa near Milan earlier this year and showered her with presents of cash, jewelry and an Audi sports car.
She has been quoted calling them "bunga-bunga" parties - an apparent reference to a lewd joke that is taken to refer to some form of sexual activity.
The dancer denied having sex with the prime minister and said that she lied to him about her age.
Politicians have demanded that Berlusconi resign and he has been lambasted by the Catholic weekly Famiglia Cristiana for lacking "self-control," Sky News reported.
The allegations come at a vulnerable time for Berlusconi, whose approval rating has been hit by corruption investigations and a political feud with former ally, Gianfranco Fini, which could rob him of his parliamentary majority.
His government’s approval rating was only 30 percent before the latest allegations.
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