A coup d’etat! <br /><br />That is how Silvio Berlusconi is describing Wednesday’s vote in which he looks set to be expelled from the Italian Senate. <br /><br />It follows the former prime minister’s conviction for tax fraud. <br /><br />Berlusconi, 77, was found guilty in August of masterminding a complex and illegal system to reduce the tax bill of his media company Mediaset.<br /><br />A court in Milan sentenced him to four years in prison, commuted to a year under house arrest or in community service.<br /><br />The billionaire media mogul, who has always protested his innocence, says Italy’s President Giorgio Napolitano should grant him a pardon.
