ROME – A day after Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi promised to bow out of the country's political picture sooner rather than later, Italians said they are not convinced he will actually leave.
"I am starting to think they will have to carry Berlusconi on a stretcher or at gunpoint," said Pier Luigi Bascolo, a 63-year-old retired taxi driver. "I don't think he's going to walk out on his own."
The beleaguered Berlusconi, the latest head of state to fall victim to the fast-spreading European debt crisis, told Italian President Giorgio Napolitano on Tuesday that he would resign from his office as soon as the country's latest austerity package made its way through Parliament. Read More>>
