Italy: Troop Withdrawal and Electoral Fortune

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

"Italy: Troop Withdrawal and Electoral Fortune" (Running for
re-election in May 2006, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says that
he will begin withdrawing Italian troops from Iraq "by September."  A
huge majority of Italians want to withdraw the troops from Iraq, and
not surprisingly, Italian voters, according to recent polls, looked
like they were ready to boot out Berlusconi and bring the Unione, the
center-left coalition opposed to the Iraq War, into power.  The
Spanish scenario in the next Italian parliamentary election had
already been foreshadowed by the local and European Union elections
in Italy -- the pattern also seen in the local and EU elections in
the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom.  Will the Italian
troop withdrawal change the electoral outcome?) -- FULL TEXT:
<http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/03/italy-troop-withdrawal-and-electoral.html>.
--
Yoshie

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