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Its leader, Pier Ferdinando Casini, says he will not help make either main candidate prime minister.
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UDC's leader, Pier Ferdinando Casini, who had dreamt of holding the balance, will dream on.
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"In life you win and you lose, " said Pier Ferdinando Casini, whose centrist movement allied with Mr. Monti for the elections.
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Pier Ferdinando Casini, the leader of the third-biggest party in Mr Berlusconi's government of 2001-06, gave his speech a rapturous welcome.
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But the UDC's leader, Pier Ferdinando Casini, had pledged never again to sit in a cabinet presided over by Mr Berlusconi.
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UDC's best hope, the speaker of the Senate, Pier Ferdinando Casini.
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That would not be easy if he were linked to old school, professional politicians such as Gianfranco Fini of the National Alliance or Pier Ferdinando Casini, a Christian Democrat.
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Both of Mr Berlusconi's senior lieutenants, Gianfranco Fini of the National Alliance and Pier Ferdinando Casini of the Union of Christian Democrats, have said as much in recent weeks.
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None of the three biggest centre-right parties after Mr Berlusconi's Forza Italia the National Alliance, led by Gianfranco Fini, the Union of Centre and Christian Democrats, now led by Pier Ferdinando Casini, and the Northern League, led by Umberto Bossi is a true believer in free-market liberalism.
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This might embrace Pier Ferdinando Casini's Union of Christian and Centre Democrats and some former Christian Democrats who now belong to the main opposition group, the Democratic Party (PD), but could be tempted to forsake it if, as expected, the PD elects a former communist as its leader next month.
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