Discontented Italian voters stay away
Financial Times
14 Aprile 2008
Italìans started voting yesterday for their 62nd post-war government, but large numbers of people were reported to be undecided or expressing their discontent with the political classes by staying away from polling stations.
Silvio Berlusconi, leader of the opposition centre-right People of Freedom alliance had been ahead in the las permitted opinion polis two weeks ago, but yesterday one of his newspapers warned supporters of the danger of a "draw" with Walter Veltroni's centre-left Democratic party.
A front-page commentary in Italy's main newspaper, Corriere Della Sera, urged the two parties to work together after the elections to get Italy out of its political and economie crisis.
Mr Berlusconi, attempting to become prime minister for the third time with a campaign based on tax cuts, has ruled out a German-style grand coalition with …
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