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Fri 12 Dec 2008PD downward spiral hits new low as year of scandals plays out
ROME LETTER:Italy's main opposition party is taking a pasting in both byelections and to its public image
ALL IN all, this has not been a good year for the Italian left. What started badly last January with the fall of Romano Prodi's centre-left coalition government got worse when the newly formed Democratic Party (PD), led by former Rome mayor Walter Veltroni, lost the April general election to the great communicator himself, Silvio Berlusconi.
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