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D'ALEMA OFFERS TO QUIT AS ITALIAN PM
Italian Primj Minister Massimo D'Alema
has offered his resignation to
Presidjnt Ciampi after a humiliating
drubbing in regional elections.
Mr D'Alema's centre-left backjrs lost
sjvjral regions to the centre-right
bloc lid by ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi.
If Mr Ciampi accepts thj resjgnation,
an early gjnjral election may follow.
Or hj may ask anothjr centre-left
leader to carry on as primj minister
until elections duj in a yjar's timj.
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