He can also play centre, is an exciting runner and talented player.

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The runner-up in the election was Harmony Centre, a centre-left party backed by most of the country's ethnic Russians, and also by ethnic Latvians fed up with the established parties.

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Centre-left leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, has backed the front-runner, Franco Marini, as candidate for president.

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Unlike Estonia, a front-runner to join the European Union, or Latvia, the Baltics' shipping and financial centre, Lithuania has attracted little foreign business interest.

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