The carnivalesque private life of Silvio Berlusconi introduced a bemused world to the notion of "bunga bunga".

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His showy populism, unseemly slanging matches with the judiciary and bunga-bunga parties now seem to come from a far-off era in a faraway land.

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The mainstream leftists of the Democratic Party, peddling the same austerity-lite as Monti and Francois Hollande in France, hold a massive lead in recent polls over the movement of Bunga-Bunga clown prince Silvio Berlusconi.

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