From Italy: MP quits over sex, drugs scandal

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ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- An Italian lawmaker, who once advocated drug tests for parliamentarians, has resigned from his party in disgrace after being caught at a hotel with a prostitute who had overdosed on drugs.

Lower house deputy Cosimo Mele denied taking cocaine himself and said he was proud he took responsibility when the prostitute felt ill. He requested an ambulance for her at their posh Rome hotel.

"I'm proud of myself. When I alerted the hotel reception and then asked them to call an ambulance, I realized that my name could get out," Mele, 50, told Corriere della Sera newspaper.

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Mele's political party, the opposition Union of Christian Democrats (UDC), accepted his resignation on Monday but said he remained, at least for now, a non-party lawmaker in parliament.

link:
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/07/31/italy.scandal.reut/index.html

on note: I think the UDC is Berlusconi's Party.