Word: basilicata
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...only West European country with a sexagenarian Prime Minister. For Italians the face-off between two candidates born in the 1930s is a discomfiting reminder of the country's geriatric tilt. "It's the same faces saying the same things," says Mariangela Potenza, 24, a university student from Basilicata. "There's nothing that transmits innovation or novelty to the voters, nothing that stimulates me as a young person." Voter turnout, though still well above U.S. standards, has been edging downward in every national election since...
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