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Italy comic's party leaps in poll, Berlusconi's fades
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| Author | Steve Scherer and Gavin Jones |
| News Date | Thursday, May 24, 2012 05:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | ROME (Reuters) - Comedian Beppe Grillo's Five-Star Movement has become Italy's second most popular party after dealing a stunning blow to traditional parties in Monday's local elections, an Ipsos poll broadcast by state TV late on Tuesday showed.
The People of Liberty (PDL) party headed by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, who resigned in November as debt costs soared and a prostitution scandal swirled, plummeted to third place for the first time since it was formed in 2008.
The Five-Star Movement would win 18.5 percent of the vote, compared with the PDL's 17.2 percent, were national elections held this week, the poll showed.
The centre-left's Democratic Party (PD) is the country's biggest with 26.7 percent support, the poll showed. |
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