91.   Premier-designate Lamberto Dini names a cabinet Tuesday but the outgoing conservative coalition vows not to support it in parliament.

92.   Since then, his conservative coalition has suffered a string of local and regional election defeats to leftist opponents.

93.   Sympathy for the prosecutors is likely to weaken Berlusconi and make it even tougher for his conservative coalition to govern.

94.   Some lawmakers from the rural-based National party have signaled a split may be emerging in the ruling conservative coalition.

95.   That government was replaced earlier this year by a conservative coalition that includes no environmental groups and has long supported the Moses project.

96.   That would raise the possibility of a Conservative coalition with coalition with the Christian Democrats and the Liberals.

97.   The conservative coalition parties have indicated they are willing to form a minority government with the help of One Nation candidates.

98.   The ambitious military reform plan is expected to win easy approval in parliament, which is dominated by parties in the governing conservative coalition.

99.   The bloc is the principal rival of the conservative coalition of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi.

100.   The conservative coalition splintered after its leader, President Jacques Chirac, called early legislative elections in June last year that propelled Socialist Lionel Jospin to the prime ministership.