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Berlusconi in Setback

ROME -- Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi suffered his first electoral setback when opposition candidates won several regional polls, results showed on Monday. "First defeat for Forza Italia," Milan's influential Corriere della Sera said of the party Berlusconi formed in January and led to triumph at the head of the conservative Freedom Alliance in March's national polls. The most glaring loss for Forza Italia was on Sardinia, where the candidate for regional president backed by Forza Italia and the neo-Fascist-led National Alliance, part of Berlusconi's ruling coalition, won only about 36 percent. Forza Italia also lost to progressives or centrist candidates in other cities and a number of significant towns in Sicily.

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