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A setback for Berlusconi?

ROME, JULY 19. The ailing Italian Reforms Minister, Umberto Bossi, resigned from the Premier, Silvio Berlusconi's Government today, the latest shake-up in the squabbling conservative government, Italian news reports said.

News agencies cited unidentified sources in their reports that Mr. Bossi, a volatile politician who brought down Mr. Berlusconi's first government in 1994, had quit both his Ministry post and his seat in the Chamber of Deputies.

A spokeswoman for Mr. Bossi's Northern League party, said the report was ``99 per centcredible'' but added that party leaders were meeting to discuss the situation.

AP

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