As Italian newspapers on Monday published photographs taken by call girls in the bathroom of Silvio Berlusconi’s Rome residence and investigators expressed concerns over lapses of security, it was business as normal for the centre-right government with the prime minister’s supporters denying the latest “scandal” would lead to his downfall.
“I don’t see any changes in the (parliamentary) majority that could provoke a fall of the government,” said Claudio Scajola, minister for economic development.
