Berlusconi is Back

NEW YORK--(Italy Watch)--He will be greeted with shreiks of joy -- and agony -- having defeated his opponent by close to a 10-point margin.

In the rollercoaster ride that is Italian politics, Silvio Berlusconi is poised to become Italy's Prime Minister -- for a third time.

The Italian Left has all but collapsed and their candidate, Walter Veltroni, embarassed at the polls.

Veltroni, a journalist by profession and the head of the Italian Democratic Party, was mayor of Rome from 2001-2008, having resigned on February 13, 2008 to campaign.


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