Italians seem set to reject austerity in vote

February 26, 2013 00:20

The makeup of Italy's future government and Parliament was uncertain as votes were being counted in watershed national elections, but one trend seemed clear: Italians are fed up with the austerity that has characterized the past year of the caretaker government.

Instant polls released just after the close of the voting stations at 3 p.m. on Monday showed the center-left Democratic Party winning a majority in the lower house of Parliament. But projections released shortly after, based on early counting of actual votes, showed the center-right coalition run by former Premier Silvio Berlusconileading in the upper house of Parliament, the Senate. That divide, if confirmed by the final vote tally, could steer the country back to a new election as early as this summer.

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