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Berlusconi, populism or neither: who will claim Italy at the polls?

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Despite Berlusconi’s comeback and Five Star Movement’s rise, Italy could face hung parliament

Europe’s appetite for populist movements will be tested on Sunday as Italians vote in a national election that threatens to plunge the eurozone’s third-largest economy into political chaos.

The results of the vote, which are expected to be announced early on Monday, could re-establish Silvio Berlusconi, the conservative former prime minister and billionaire forced out of office in 2011 under a cloud of scandal, as the dominant force in Italian politics.

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2tabFnV

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