The teen who floored the Italian PM

ROME: Campaigning in Italy for the European parliament election was dominated on May 24,  by demands that Premier Silvio Berlusconi explain his relationship with an 18-year-old Neapolitan woman.

The calls for the 72-year-old conservative premier to explain how he came to know Noemi Letizia appeared to be set off by an interview in La Repubblica newspaper with her former boyfriend, Gino Flaminio.

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Image: In this  April 28, 2009 file photo, 18-year-old Noemi Letizia poses in her home in Naples, Italy. There are mounting calls to explain Italian premier Berlusconi's  "steamy affair" with the teen girl.