The Life in Italy website reports that Pier Luigi Bersani, the leader of Italy's biggest opposition party, said today (January 21, 2011) that he is hoping to get 10 million people to sign a petition calling on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to resign over allegations he had sex with an underage prostitute.
Berlusconi, a 74-year-old billionaire, has denied any wrongdoing, after it was revealed last week that prosecutors are investigating whether he paid to have sex with several young women, including Karima El Mahroug, at the time a 17-year-old belly dancer, who stayed overnight at the prime minister's villa near Milan on several occasions. Mahroug admitted that she had received money from Berlusconi, but said it was "a gift."
Yesterday, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone -- second only to Pope Benedict in the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy -- said the Vatican was "particularly worried" about the impact the scandal was having in Italy.
Cardinal Bertone added, "The Church pushes and invites everyone, above all those who hold public responsibility in any administrative, political, and judicial area, to be committed to a more robust morality, a sense of justice and lawfulness."
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