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Everything you need to know about Italy’s messed-up elections

From washingtonpost.com

Results from Italy’s election — held Sunday and Monday — are trickling in, and the winner is…nobody. With the technocratic caretaker government of Mario Monti out of office, the three main contenders were former conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his party, The People of Freedom; Pier Luigi Bersani of the left-leaning Democratic Party; and humorist Beppe Grillo and his populist Five Star Movement party. In Italy, voters vote for electoral coalitions rather than candidates, and parties are then granted seats according to the percentage of votes they got. The parties then hand out those seats according ... (full story)

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