Italian opposition makes gains in local elections
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Italy's centre-right opposition made solid gains in local polls but Prime Minister Romano Prodi avoided a drubbing in his first major electoral test a year after taking office, according to provisional results on Monday.
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Uffici locali assisteranno i piccoli contribuenti
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Polls opened in Morocco on Friday in parliamentary elections expected to show gains for opposition Islamists pushing an anti-corruption message that has drawn wide support in the north African kingdom.
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Italy's prime minister Romano Prodi, who resigned earlier this week, has won the backing from parties in his ruling coalition to continue in office, his spokesman said on Friday.
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"Socialists win power but Popular Party strongest in votes after landslide in Madrid."  Spain's ruling Socialists and opposition conservatives both claimed victory in weekend local elections that were seen as primaries for next year's general elections. via The China Post
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Pechino, elezioni locali con metodo del suffragio universale
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(AGI) - Roma, 23 ott. - Sono 739.809 (352.141 uomini e 387.668 donne), distribuiti in 880 sezioni, gli aventi diritto al voto nelle elezioni suppletive della Camera dei deputati, in programma domani, 24 ottobre e lunedi&#39; 25.
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Brazil&#39;s ruling party has made gains in Sunday&#39;s local elections seen as mid-term referendum on the government of left-leaning President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi won a confidence vote in the lower house of parliament as expected on Wednesday, but faces a much more difficult task in the Senate, where he no longer has a majority.
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L&#39;affluenza alle urne in forte calo: ieri alle 22 avevano votato solo il 29% degli aventi diritto. A Milano la sfida piÃ¹ tesa. MILANO - Si voterÃ  fino alle 15, nei sette collegi delle suppletive dove i seggi si sono aperti alle 8 di ieri mattina.
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HONG KONG, Sept.13, 2004âPro-democracy parties in Hong Kong made small gains in Sunday&#39;s Legislative Council elections but said mass protests of July 1 had failed to translate into stronger support for their candidates.
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Early results for Italian local elections  in which 10 million people were eligible to vote put the  centre-right opposition ahead on Monday, but Romano Prodi&#39;s  left-leaning government appeared to have avoided a drubbing.
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Parties on the far right and left made gains in two state elections Sunday in Germany, with voters delivering a rebuke to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democrats as he tries to rein in German welfare programs.
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Protests over the past two weeks have   added extra spice to local elections in Hungary on Sunday, but   unless the Socialists and their allies lose heavily in big   cities, there is unlikely to be much political fallout.
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Domani 24 ottobre e lunedÃ¬ 25 si vota per le elezioni suppletive della Camera dei Deputati per riassegnare i seggi che si sono resi vacante dopo le elezioni europee. Gli elettori interessati sono 739.809
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A nationalist party riding an anti-immigrant wave on the right and the Green Party appealing to environmental concerns on the left were poised to gain strength in parliamentary elections Sunday.
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The Italian government on Wednesday sped  up parliamentary approval of a law that could overturn the  corruption convictions of a close friend of Prime Minister  Silvio Berlusconi, sparking fury among opposition politicians.