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An actor wearing a mask depicting Italian former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi performs alongside three billboards in front of the Colosseum
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ITALY faces a hung parliament after no single party or coalition gained anything close to a majority in yesterday’s election.
With most of the votes counted today, the single largest bloc was a right-wing coalition consisting of the far-right League, convicted fraudster Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, and the smaller far-right Brothers of Italy and Us With Italy.
Before the vote it had been imagined that Mr Berlusconi’s party would be the main force — though there had been intra-coalition squabbles — but Matteo Salvini’s League came first with 17 per cent to Forza Italia’s 14.
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