Italy was last night staring at a period of prolonged political instability after a general election in which voters delivered a resounding rebuff to austerity with little hope of any party mustering a governing majority.
The nation was torn three ways between Pier Luigi Bersani’s centre-left, Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right and an upstart anti-establishment movement hostile to both.
Politicians in the centre-left camp, hopeful of a majority of seats in the legislature’s lower house but likely to be denied control of the Senate, raised the prospect of a second election, possibly within months.
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