MAIN PAGE WORLD U.S. WEATHER ... ABOUT US/HELP CNN TV what's on show transcripts CNN Headline News CNN International EDITIONS CNN.com Asia CNN.com Europe CNNenEspanol.com CNNArabic.com ... set your edition Languages Spanish Portuguese German Italian Korean Arabic Japanese Time, Inc. Time.com People Fortune EW InStyle Business 2.0 Italy's interior minister resigns Scajola's resignation had already been rejected once ROME, Italy Italian Interior Minister Claudio Scajola has resigned after outraging parliament by calling a government aide murdered by guerrillas "a pain in the ass." He resigned before Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi faced parliament on the issue later on Wednesday. In a letter of resignation, Scajola called his decision to quit a "necessary act of duty" and said it was the best way to pay the price for having "once again opened the wound" of the family of the murdered aide. Marco Biagi, a labour ministry adviser, was shot dead in March by Red Brigades leftist guerrillas. The Brigades, who terrorised Italy in the 1970s and 1980s, said they killed him for his work on laws that would make it easier to fire people. Scajola, a member of Berlusconi's Forza Italia party, first offered his resignation on Sunday night but Berlusconi rejected it. The premier came under intense pressure for that decision. | |
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