Forza Italia (Go Italy) party leader Silvio Berlusconi, right, flanked by Mario Schifani, walks past a presidential guard at the end of his meeting with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, at the Quirinale Presidential palace, in Rome, Friday, Feb. 23, 2007. The Italian president began a second day of talks with political leaders Friday, in what is expected to be a final round of consultations on the formation of a new government after the resignation of Premier Romano Prodi's nine-month-old Cabinet. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)