Italian polls resume for second day

Elections have resumed in Italy for a second day as 50 million voters are given a chance to elect 630 deputies and 315 senators in both houses of parliament.

Izvor: Tanjug

Monday, 25.02.2013.

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ROME Elections have resumed in Italy for a second day as 50 million voters are given a chance to elect 630 deputies and 315 senators in both houses of parliament. The race is run by the parties and coalitions gathered around four candidates for premiership. Italian polls resume for second day They are comedian Beppe Grillo, billionaire with a first-instance verdict for tax evasion Silvio Berlusconi, left-wing political apparatchik who does not understand the economy Pier Luigi Bersani, and current PM Mario Monti - a conservative professor of economics who does not understand politics. According to a poll conducted on the eve of the two-day voting Bersani's coalition can count on about 35 percent of the vote, followed by Berlusconi's center-right coalition with 28 percent. Grillo and Monti trail behind with 18 and 15 percent support. Yesterday, the first day of the voting passed peacefully, except for an incident that occurred when three topless feminists threw themselves at former Prime Minister Berlusconi as he arrived to a polling station in Milan. The women had the words "Basta Berlusconi (Berlusconi Enough)" written on their backs, and were soon placed under arrest. The main issue to be resolved in this election that could shape the future of one of Europe's largest economies is whether Italy would stay the course of painful economic reforms or return to what the AFP news agency calls its old habits of extravagance and inertia. Other EU countries and investors are also observing the elections in Italy with interest, because the voters there will make decisions could have a huge impact on whether Europe can decisively put out the flames of the financial crisis that is spreading across the continent. Berlusconi votes (Beta/AP) Tanjug

Italian polls resume for second day

They are comedian Beppe Grillo, billionaire with a first-instance verdict for tax evasion Silvio Berlusconi, left-wing political apparatchik who does not understand the economy Pier Luigi Bersani, and current PM Mario Monti - a conservative professor of economics who does not understand politics.

According to a poll conducted on the eve of the two-day voting Bersani's coalition can count on about 35 percent of the vote, followed by Berlusconi's center-right coalition with 28 percent. Grillo and Monti trail behind with 18 and 15 percent support.

Yesterday, the first day of the voting passed peacefully, except for an incident that occurred when three topless feminists threw themselves at former Prime Minister Berlusconi as he arrived to a polling station in Milan.

The women had the words "Basta Berlusconi (Berlusconi Enough)" written on their backs, and were soon placed under arrest.

The main issue to be resolved in this election that could shape the future of one of Europe's largest economies is whether Italy would stay the course of painful economic reforms or return to what the AFP news agency calls its old habits of extravagance and inertia.

Other EU countries and investors are also observing the elections in Italy with interest, because the voters there will make decisions could have a huge impact on whether Europe can decisively put out the flames of the financial crisis that is spreading across the continent.

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