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The Italian elections have thrown up a virtual tie.(The Week)(Brief article)

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* The Italian elections have thrown up a virtual tie. Out of 38 million votes cast, something like 25,000 votes give the Socialist challenger Romano Prodi the lead over the incumbent conservative Silvio Berlusconi. It's those hanging chads all over again in an Italian context. Prodi claims that he has won, while Berlusconi alleges that there has been "so much fraud," demanding recounts and refusing to concede. The Italian president, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, has to give the eventual winner a mandate to form the government, but confusion grows because his ...

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