Former ally says Silvio Berlusconi has 'whoring attitude' to women

A former senator from Silvio Berlusconi's party has publicly branded the Italian prime minister "a real pig" with a "whoring attitude of contempt towards women".
Writing on his blog, Paolo Guzzanti, a right-wing politician who resigned from Mr Berlusconi's party six months ago, said the reason he withdrew his long-term support was his "whoring attitude of contempt towards women".
He went on to call the 72-year-old "un gran porco" (a real pig) "who has corrupted Italian femininity, opening unthinkable careers to pretty girls who have learnt only how important it is to give it to the right person at the right time", the Times reports. The website was not working yesterday afternoon, but his comments were reproduced by the weekly newspaper L'Espresso, and its sister publication, the daily newspaper La Repubblica.
Mr Guzzanti, 69, is the former head of the parliamentary commission looking into Soviet spying in Italy, and used to be a senior executive on Il Giornale, the newspaper owned by Mr Berlusconi's family.
In his blog, Mr Guzzanti referred to transcripts of tape recordings, which he claimed emerged during an unspecified inquiry in Naples and were "then destroyed in Rome".
In the tapes, he claims, "people who now hold very high office discuss among themselves terrible things which decency and charity towards my country prevent me from writing".
When asked to explain, Mr Guzzanti described a culture of sexual favours within Italian politics.
"I say, and I confirm, that the things that were recounted to me by many sources are absolutely disgusting.
"The day when a magistrate wants to interrogate me to find out from whom I have this information, and who was the journalist who supplied the reading material, I will do my duty and I will name names."
Mr Berlusconi, who is on holiday, denied paying women for sex after the prostitute Patrizia D'Addario claimed that she spent the night with him in return for help with a building project.
His office did not return calls seeking a response to Mr Guzzanti's comments yesterday.
Published: 06 Aug 2009
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