Alfano 'used Forza Italia like a taxi'

(ANSA) - Rome, May 22 - Ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi said Friday two former members of his Forza Italia (FI) party used it "like a taxi".
    Interior Minister Angelino Alfano in 2013 left Berlusconi's now-defunct People of Freedom (PdL) party to found the small New Center Right (NCD) party, which is now a junior member of the ruling coalition.
    Former Berlusconi confidant Raffaele Fitto last Tuesday launched a new movement called Conservatives and Reformists after formalising his split from FI at the weekend.
    "Alfano, like other professional politicians, used FI like a taxi," Berlusconi said, adding that his former proteges and allies took advantage when he was "forced to resign as premier in 2011".