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Mr Berlusconi’s main opponent, Walter Veltroni, will lead a new, broad party of the centre-left; but Mr Berlusconi will run at the head of his familiar, habitually quarrelsome, four-party coalition. Mr Veltroni is 52; his opponent is a septuagenarian with a pacemaker. The parliamentary election is likely to be held on the same day as local elections, a combination that usually favours the left.

The Economist, They’re off, again, feb 7th 2008.