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Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi called on Saturday for a presidential pardon following his conviction for tax fraud and said his expulsion from parliament in a vote next week would be a "coup d'etat". On Wednesday the Senate will vote on whether the 77-year-old Berlusconi should lose his seat, after he was found guilty in August of masterminding a complex and illegal system to reduce the tax bill of his media company Mediaset. "The left should not imagine that we will allow this coup d'etat to go ahead without any response," Berlusconi told an assembly of young followers of his center-right Forza Italia (Go Italy!) party. The vote is expected to go against the billionaire media-mogul, with Prime Minister Enrico Letta's Democratic Party and the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement both in favour of his expulsion.
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