Resignations hit Berlusconi

The four — Europe Minister Andrea Ronchi, Deputy Economic Development Minister Adolfo Urso and two junior ministers — are supporters of speaker of parliament Gianfranco Fini, a former ally of Berlusconi turned rival.

Fini’s Future and Freedom movement announced the pull-out in a statement. “We propose a new government, a new majority, a new agenda for reform.... Berlusconi is holing himself up in his palace like in a bunker,” Urso said in an interview.