Berlusconi braced for more local election defeats
Parties from Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s conservative coalition yesterday appeared largely headed for their latest defeat at the hands of the centre-left opposition, according to partial results from local elections on the island of Sardinia and parts of northern Italy.
The voting, on Sardinia and in the mountainous regions of Valle d’Aosta and Trentino-Alto Adige, came a month after the conservative parties of Berlusconi’s centre-right government suffered a severe setback in regional ballots across most of the rest of the country.
