The Israeli leader appeared to acknowledge that Tuesday's results reflected popular discontent with the status quo.

WSJ: Israel Vote Weakens Premier

Trying to tap into popular discontent, especially among the squeezed middle class, Labour has focussed its campaign almost exclusively on social and economic reform.

BBC: Q&A: Israeli elections

He would not do a deal with Mr Monti's centrist bloc, he added, saying that the prime minister's poor showing was down to popular discontent with his austerity measures.

BBC: Italy election: Europe jitters over result deadlock

Hessel's 32-page "Time for Outrage" sold millions of copies across Europe, tapping into a vein of popular discontent with capitalism and transforming him into an intellectual superstar within weeks.

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He has channelled popular discontent at unemployment and crime.

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The Five Star Movement, riding a wave of popular protest and discontent, is expected do well in the polls, but its leader Beppe Grillo has ruled out making alliances with other parties.

BBC: Q&A: Italian election

By listing some of Wal-Mart's ever-multiplying faults, you have at least performed two valuable services: reminding those of us with a conscience why we never shop there and reminding your non-American readers that America's growing discontent with Wal-Mart indicates that they are not quite the ravenous consumer zombies of popular belief.

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