Berlusconi struggles to rally supporters ahead of polls

Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister, failed to muster the numbers he had hoped for at the 21 March 2010 rally of his centre-right People of Liberty party in Rome, raising the prospect of a tighter-than-anticipated battle in key regional elections later in March 2010.

ESO: Background information: Berlusconi hits back at censorship claims http://www.europeansources.info/record/berlusconi-hits-back-at-censorship-claims/

ANSA, 22.3.10: Number of disaffected voters on the rise, says pollster (via lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it) http://www.lagazzettadelmezzogiorno.it/notizia.php?IDNotizia=320844

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