Italy is in the grip of an election campaign. Polling day next month will mark a return to full-blown democracy.
For more than a year the country has been run by a boring grey army
of professors and experts led by Mario Monti. They were asked to take
over when Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi resigned at the height of a
financial crisis.
Berlusconi’s reputation precedes him – and it’s anything but grey
and boring. Rome correspondent Alan Johnston finds that the real winner
of the election might not be either man. Instead Pier Luigi Bersani, a
cigar-smoking former Communist, looks set to inherit the air.
Damien McGuinness reports on a prisoner release in Tbilisi. It is a
bold move by the new government, which considered them political
prisoners, thrown into jail, beaten and abused – because they dared to
speak out against the former administration.
But the suspicion is that some of the released prisoners are really
violent criminals, and some Georgians are worried about a return to the
bad old days of the 90s, when crime was both highly organised and
widespread.
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