Centre-left leader, Pier Luigi Bersani, has backed the front-runner, Franco Marini, as candidate for president.
Efforts by centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani to forge a political agreement with the anti-establishment Beppe Grillo have so far been rebuffed.
Say it sotto voce, but the latest results from Italy's general election point to the slimmest of slim victories for centre-left leader Romano Prodi .
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Fotis Kouvelis, the Democratic Left leader, still insists that Greece will ask its European partners for an extra two years to implement the new austerity package.
Centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani on Monday issued an ultimatum to anti-establishment comic Beppe Grillo, who gained one in four votes, to support a new government or return to the polls.
Political parties have sparred for weeks over suitable candidates to succeed Giorgio Napolitano, whose term expires next month, but center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani and center-right leader Silvio Berlusconi have reportedly now reached agreement.
The elections in Italy -- the eurozone's third-largest economy -- ended in political deadlock this week following a three-way battle between center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and comedian Beppe Grillo.
The centre-left leader proposes reforms to tackle corruption and create jobs, possibly with the backing of comedian Beppe Grillo, whose Five Star Movement won an unexpected 25% in the election and holds the balance of power.
Another political affairs analyst, James Walston, said the odds were against Bersani's succeeding, but predicted if the center-left leader does manage to cinch the confidence votes, the government stands a chance of lasting till spring 2014.
The market has set its heart on a coalition involving center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani and current Prime Minister Mario Monti, which it considers most likely to stick to the reform program embarked on by the current technocratic government.
It quotes centre-left opposition leader Francesco Rutelli calling for political unity in a time of crisis for Italy.
Plaid, they say, are the party with a 'supposedly left wing leader' who says one thing but who, when it comes down to it, does another.
Mr Maginnis left his leader some room for manoeuvre by not demanding that Sinn Fein be expelled from the review or that Ms Mowlam suspend the early release of republican prisoners from jail.
He is now aiming to become France's first left-wing leader since the late Francois Mitterrand left office in 1995.
At the start of the election campaign, Mr Berlusconi trailed far behind his main centre-left opponent - Pierluigi Bersani, leader of the left-wing Democrats.
Armed forces spokesman Shahinul Islam said the opposition leader left the house on her own, in accordance with the court order.
The Social Democrats, meanwhile, are losing support to smaller left-wing parties, though not enough to dethrone it as the left's leader.
With the negligible surplus, Mr Costello has left the Labor leader, Kim Beazley, little room to offer big promises in the election.
So, is France ready for its first left-wing leader in 17 years?
Having made his case the Tory leader left the packed room to his second standing ovation, and it was only conference's first day.
The pin up of the global left and the leader of the British right will add the latest image to the photo album of the Special Relationship.
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And whilst the first minister is doing the "big picture" stuff, the UUP leader is left wrestling with yet more internal ructions.
It is still left with a formidable leader who deserves to be remembered as one of the four greatest Prime Ministers in British history.
French left-wing party leader Jean-Luc Melenchon says he will run for the same seat as far-right rival Marine Le Pen in the forthcoming parliamentary polls.
Matteo Renzi, the dynamic young mayor of Florence whom he defeated in last year's primary to select the centre-left coalition's leader, is one name being mentioned.
In a bid for party unity, the Democrats elected a new party secretary Saturday, choosing former left-wing union leader, Guglielmo Epifani in hopes of reinvigorating grass-root support.
No European leader, left or right, is calling for a major political shift of the kind that would allow them to permanently shrink public spending and, thus, keep within the new fiscal rules.
As president, Chavez made clear his ambitions of being a regional and international leader who left, in his own way, changes that awakened passions and feelings in favor and against -- everything except indifference.
In the weeks after last month's general election, the leader of the Czechs' main left-wing party, which won the poll, and the leader of the main right-wing one, which came second, both failed to gather up enough allies to form a government.
Shelly Yachimovich, leader of the left-wing Labour party, singled out Mr Ofer for criticism in her campaign.
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