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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/protests-after-berlusconi-wins-vote.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Police officers take position during clashes in Rome (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-protests-after-berlusconi-wins-vote.jpg" alt="Police officers take position during clashes in Rome (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>Violent protests have erupted in Rome after Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi won back-to-back confidence votes in parliament, narrowly surviving one of his toughest political challenges yet.</p>
<p>Police had to use tear gas to stop angry demonstrators from torching cars and smashing windows.</p>
<p>Inside parliament&#8217;s lower house, tensions boiled over as MPs pushed and shoved each other, forcing a brief suspension in the voting.</p>
<p>Ultimately, Mr Berlusconi survived the lower house&#8217;s no-confidence motion by just three votes. He had secured a more comfortable victory in a confidence vote at the Senate earlier on Tuesday.</p>
<p>But he was left with a razor-thin majority that will make it hard for him to govern effectively.</p>
<p>As MPs cast their votes, the violent core of anti-Berlusconi protesters outside clashed with police.</p>
<p>The outcome of the highly uncertain votes attested to Mr Berlusconi&#8217;s uncanny ability to survive, even when nearly all indications pointed to a government collapse.</p>
<p>He was weakened from a year dominated by sex scandals, corruption charges against some of his aides and a break-up with a close ally that had put into question whether he could still muster a parliamentary majority.</p>
<p>But the 74-year-old battled back, succeeding in swaying a few crucial MPs to vote in his favour and pressing the case that stability trumped political infighting at a time of economic crisis. The results were closely watched as Italy has a high public debt level and slow growth.</p>
<p>The outcome marked a victory for Mr Berlusconi over the one-time ally who has become his most bitter rival, Gianfranco Fini. By contrast, it dealt a blow to Mr Fini&#8217;s ambitions to replace Mr Berlusconi as conservative leader, at least in the short term.</p>
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