Italian right 'tried to rig poll'
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Italy launches an inquiry into claims that former PM's Silvio Berlusconi tried to rig April's general election.
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(AGI) - Roma, 30 set. - Lanciare un referendum abrogativo della quota maggioritaria della legge elettorale e tornare al sistema proporzionale. Questo lo scopo di una iniziativa trasversale che vede impegnati
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Musharraf's party faces vote-rigging allegations in key electoral battlefields in Pakistan
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Officials hit out at an EU report critical of April's polls, saying it was deliberately trying to incite Nigerians.
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Supporters of the leading presidential challenger were protesting what they said was a plot by the government to steal the closely contested election.
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Rocco Buttiglione, disputed candidate for European justice and security commissioner, says he is the victim of a hate campaign and a wider anti-Christian &quot;Inquisition&quot; among EU institutions.
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Hong Kong media and a rights group  accused Beijing on Thursday of meddling in this weekend's  election, saying publicity about a pro-democracy candidate  jailed for hiring a prostitute was timed to influence the  result.
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Bruxelles, 11 ott. (Adnkronos/Aki) - Con 27 voti contrari e 26 favorevoli la Commissione Liberta&#39; dell&#39;Europarlamento non da&#39; il via libera a Rocco Buttiglione commissario. Ora gli eurodeputati passano al
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Italy will hold an election by mid-April which could return media magnate Silvio Berlusconi to power after political parties failed to agree on an interim government.
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ROME, Italy -- Police say they have defused an explosive device near a Sardinian villa where Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had been entertaining his British counterpart Tony Blair, news reports said.
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"I think this risks being a missed opportunity for Italian politics, rushing towards elections with a flawed law"  By Silvia Aloisi and Robin PomeroyROME  - Italy's Senate speaker gave up trying to form a temporary government on Monday, making a snap election the only likely way out of a political vacuum left when Romano Prodi resigned as prime minister last month.Senate speaker Franco Marini, who had been asked by the president to seek cross-party backing for an interim administration to reform the electoral system ahead of a vote, said there was no such support."I could not find a significant majority on a precise electoral reform," Marini told reporters as he left President Giorgio Napolitano's office after handing back his mandate to try to form a new government. Read more
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Italians will go to the polls on April 13 and 14, officials announced Wednesday, heralding a probable return to power by conservative media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi.
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The Republican party claimed Democrats illegally coordinated a voter mobilization blitz for John Kerry in Florida with groups not regulated by electoral authorities.
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Italy&#39;s prime minister has blamed leftists after a European Parliamentary committee rejected his conservative nominee for justice commissioner.
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because Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had not bowed to demands to withdraw Italian troops from Iraq. were &quot;unreliable&quot; and was treating them with &quot;total suspicion&quot;.
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The BBC's Tamsin Smith says the row in Brussels over comments by Italy's candidate for EU commissioner has affronted Italians.
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Controversial tycoon demands snap elections after the squabbles that brought down Prodi - and proposes a 'very British' 10-point plan