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Italy's final vote result

ROME
Petroleumworld.com, April 15, 2008

Italy's conservative leader Silvio Berlusconi will enjoy comfortable majorities in both houses of the incoming parliament, according to final results announced by the interior ministry on Tuesday.

The centre-right coalition that won the general elections held Sunday and Monday will have 168 seats in the Senate -- 10 more than the minimum 158 needed for an absolute majority there -- against 130 for the centre-left and three for centrist lawmakers.

Berlusconi won 15.5 million votes, or 47.3 percent, against rival centre-left flagbearer Walter Veltroni, who won 12.5 million, or 38 percent, in the Senate race, the ministry said.

Centrist Pier Ferdinando Casini won nearly 1.9 million, or 5.7 percent.

Twenty other formations including communists and Greens in the newly formed Rainbow Left party did not garner enough votes to enter the Senate.

The Rainbow left won slightly more than one million votes, or 3.2 percent.

In the lower house Chamber of Deputies, the centre-right will have 340 seats against 239 for the left and 36 for the centre.

Polling for the lower house saw Berlusconi's forces win some 17 million votes, or 46.8 percent, against 13.7 million or 37.5 percent for Veltroni and two million, 5.6 percent for Casini.




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