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ROME — Behind the high gates of his lavish 16th-century villa in Italy’s wealthy Po Valley, Silvio Berlusconi is plotting. His People of Freedom party is currently the most popular in Italy. He just won a victory by getting rid of a disliked property tax. And yet he could be facing his political end.
Mr. Berlusconi, 76, the polarizing former prime minister and billionaire media mogul, has dominated Italian politics for two decades, even as he maneuvered past sex scandals and corruption trials. Then, in July, he ran out of maneuvering room: Italy’s highest court upheld a prison term against him for tax fraud. On Monday, a parliamentary commission will debate whether to strip him of his Senate seat.
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