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Italy's president on Sunday rejected Silvio Berlusconi's call for a pardon over his conviction for tax fraud and told the center-right leader he must stay within the law in his protests if he is expelled from parliament this week. A statement from President Giorgio Napolitano's office said the four times prime minister had not only failed to behave in a way that might have made a pardon possible, but had "expressed judgments and intentions of extreme gravity." 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. Napolitano appealed to Berlusconi "not to conduct protests which go outside the limits of respect for the institutions and for normal, necessary legality," the statement said. The party plans street protests on the day of the vote, which is expected to go against the billionaire media tycoon who has always protested his innocence.
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