Italian Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini said a separate Italian inquiry into Mr Calipari's death would continue.
Mr. PAVAROTTI: (As Giorgio Fini) Do you think I do this for my own pleasure?
Mr Fini pointedly avoids mentioning Messrs Le Pen or Haider: neither is welcome in Verona.
Some even speculated that Mr Fini might be preparing to establish a new centrist alliance.
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In the long term, no doubt, Mr Fini still aspires to the PdL leadership.
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The worried Mr D'Alema knows that Mr Fini represents only a third-plus of the conservative opposition.
Although happy to back progressive causes, the 57-year-old Mr Fini is no disciple of the free market.
Mr Fini and his followers are due to decide on November 7th whether to leave the government.
Negotiations for cabinet slots to replace the Fini faithful will begin with the Catholic moderate, Pierferdinando Casini.
This weekend, at a party conference in Verona, Mr Fini will shrug off more of the past.
So when Mr Fini attacked him, Berlusconi loyalists concluded that he was putting himself forward as a successor.
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She noted that centre-right parties had come on board - even the rightist Gianfranco Fini of the National Alliance.
Mr Fini's private life may also have played a role in his evolution.
Berlusconi on Wednesday said Fini, the deputy prime minister, was "absolutely" a candidate.
The centre-left's victory in the general election of 1996 shook Mr Fini, though his own party got 6m votes.
As Italy's mainstream right falls into turmoil, Mr Fini is the obvious beneficiary.
In most Italian eyes, Fini the pariah became Fini the ordinary right-wing politician.
Not even Mr Fini's friends deny that his lurch to the left is partly aimed at winning him the succession.
Speaking after the statement was issued, Mr Fini said Italy would press on with a criminal investigation into Mr Calipari's death.
One contender for the foreign minister's job is Gianfranco Fini, the leader of a once-fascist party and now deputy prime minister.
Opinion polls show that most Italians agree with Mr Fini: Mr Berlusconi, they said, was wrong to say what he did.
Not surprisingly, Mr Fini's rivals on the Italian right are much less keen to co-operate now they sense he is invading their territory.
This week Francesco Cossiga, a former Christian Democratic president who has just founded his own party, attacked Mr Fini for his fascist past.
On the opposition side, Mr Fini was thus left alone in defending the reforms, including his own pet project, the directly elected presidency.
The MSI became the core of Mr Fini's National Alliance party, which in March was folded into Mr Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PdL) movement.
But by making himself more acceptable to the voters at large, Mr Fini risks alienating the PdL bigwigs who will choose Mr Berlusconi's successor.
Mr Berlusconi quit as prime minister after Mr Fini's party, the National Alliance, threatened to follow the Christian Democrats by pulling out of government.
Mr Berlusconi's key partner, outgoing Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini, said earlier on Friday that he expected the formation of a new cabinet very soon.
Ironically, it was Mr Berlusconi who first nudged Mr Fini into the mainstream by backing him, amid uproar, for mayor of Rome in 1993.
In contrast to Mr Berlusconi, who cultivates the image of a maverick, Mr Fini makes great play of respecting Italy's judiciary, parliament and constitution.
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