Grigory Yavlinsky, the liberal-minded leader of Yabloko, the main centre-left party, has fought an energetic campaign.
It seems very unlikely that Mr Berlusconi will overtake the main centre-left coalition.
DMG's parent, said recently that London will continue to be Europe's main centre.
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.
In any event, the man in trouble is Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, the leader of the Social Democrats, who form the main centre-right opposition.
Further proof came in another story making waves in Strasbourg, the departure of British Conservatives from the main centre-right group, the European People's Party (EPP).
Hurrans went into administration in January 2009 after 40 years in business, blaming losses at three of its five branches, including its main centre at Churchdown.
Capacity at the headquarters is due to increase by about 60%, with the force hoping to sell off the main city centre station on Steelhouse Lane.
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Approved in late 1995, the regeneration scheme was anchored around the resuscitation of Shields Road, the main shopping centre in the east of Newcastle, which had become run down.
Neath-based Express Reinforcements won a contract from the main contractor building the Olympic Stadium, while Euroclad in Cardiff won contracts on both the Olympic Stadium and the main broadcast centre.
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But on his second afternoon, in a set piece speech to young Israelis in Jerusalem's main conference centre, he laid out where he believed both Israel and the Palestinians should be going.
Until the XV century, Otrar, together with the rest of the Great Ortar Oasis, represented the main urban centre on the marginal zone between southern towns and northern steppes, between settlers and nomads of Central Asia.
The strike started when 500 workers at Royal Mail's main sorting centre in Mallusk, Newtownabbey, joined about 250 other members of staff in Belfast city centre who walked out on Thursday in a dispute over proposed new working patterns.
Visit Lycian rock tombs in the cliffs above the main tourist centre of Fethiye or the eerie Greek ghost town of Kayakoy, which was abandoned when its Orthodox people were exiled in 1923 during an exchange of minority religious populations between Turkey and Greece.
If true, this could damage the main opposition, the centre-left Democratic United Party (DUP).
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The old rail track became a main approach to the centre along the Rideau Canal.
The main attraction at the centre is the tree-high platforms from which visitors can get nose-to-nose with the giraffes.
At the main Trauma and Burns Centre in Tunis I met Hosni - a young man from Gasserine.
Even so, the new recruits failed to impress Nasrullah Zarifi, who commands the main police-training centre in Kandahar.
Karachi, the country's main port and commercial centre, is still rent by violence.
Heavy rain flooded the main building and education centre at the Looe Monkey Sanctuary in Cornwall and several trees were felled.
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The main focus appears to centre on whether new stadia will be finished in time and whether there will be adequate transport links.
The casualties had already been sent back to the main hospitals in the city centre.
Running down the centre of the main gallery are a series of undulating, curved display cabinets each with a futuristic, swooping top.
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The main lobby of the conference centre in Durban, South Africa, saw a long demonstration on the final afternoon, with campaigners demanding progress.
The BBC's John Sudworth in Ya'an says dozens of injured people are still being treated in a triage centre outside the main hospital.
The main bridge in the town centre was closed as the water climbed more than two metres above the level usual for the time of year.
He said road works in one of the city centre's main routes, St Mary Street, was also affecting the number of ranks available, and there was already a shortage.
Although Koetter Kim has produced some expensive-looking ideas, such as building a funicular railway to link the main station with the city centre, Mr Moore insists that the new vision will be affordable.
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