ROME: Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi is in for a tumultuous week that will likely see him booted out of parliament and shift into opposition to a government where he is still formally a coalition partner.

A vote on Berlusconi’s ejection from the Senate scheduled for Wednesday would see the former prime minister forced to leave parliament for the first time since he entered politics in the early 1990s.

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