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Alesina described Prodi as being “in between a rock and a hard place,” either “doing nothing or being stopped by the extreme left.” Because of this, Alesina said that he predicts Italy will face “another period of instability” and an “early election in a couple of years...
...Prodi, who was also named prime minister in 1996, faced similar problems when his government fell in 1998 after the Communist Refoundation Party withdrew its support for the Union...
...prime minister, Prodi, who has also served as president of the European Commission, said that he would focus on the European Union...
...admit defeat, Berlusconi usually comes away better off than most. So it shouldn't be that surprising that while his days as Italian Prime Minister are now almost certainly numbered, the charismatic media mogul may well emerge from the election, ostensibly won by center left leader Romano Prodi, as what one center-left source called "winning loser." Having made up much ground in the polls in the final weeks, Berlusconi has reaffirmed his own party, Forza Italia, as the single largest political force in a Parliament likely to be led by a weak, vulnerable prime minister. "Berlusconi is about...
...most now believe that Prodi, 66, will in fact eventually be confirmed as Prime Minister, and Berlusconi will lead the opposition. On Tuesday, though, the President of the Republic, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, whose own term expires next month, said institutional constraints require that the new Prime Minister be installed by Ciampi's successor. That means that Berlusconi may have as many as six to eight weeks to serve as Prime Minister of a Parliament controlled by the center-left. In that period, he may start laying out a strategy for opposing the eventual Prodi government...