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MILAN — Italian voters turned out in large numbers to deal Premier Silvio Berlusconi his latest blow at the ballot box, overturning laws passed by his government to revive nuclear energy, privatize the water supply — and help him avoid prosecution.
The defeat on four referendums on the ballot Sunday and Monday was Berlusconi’s second in as many weeks, after his candidates lost mayoral races in his stronghold Milan and trash-choked Naples in a vote the billionaire media mogul himself had billed as a referendum on his government.
Center-left opposition leader Pier Luigi Bersani said the referendum results were tantamount to “a divorce between the government and the country.”
