On the eve of one of Italy's most sensational trials involving the prime minister and a nightclub dancer, Silvio Berlusconi received a welcome boost from parliament.
The scandal prone leader managed to rally his flimsy majority and win a vote.
It concerned moving the hearing to a special ministerial tribunal. Although the result is not binding on the Milan judges who will open the so-called Rubygate case today, it could change things later.
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