League of their own
Silvio Berlusconi's efforts to form a government stalled as a dispute over cabinet posts prompted his Northern League allies to suspend talks for two days, Reuter reports from Rome. The League had demanded the key interior ministry as its price for joining the government; yesterday the party was demanding three ministerial posts.
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