Senior research fellow at the Institute for International
and Strategic Relations - IRIS
8July 2011
The government presided by Silvio Berlusconi, that was already weakened by several electoral setbacks (the municipal elections at Milan and Naples on May 30 2011 and the popular referendum and laws as set by M. Berlusconi on the 12th and 13th June) risked its mandate with regards to the Libyan crisis