Italy's Bersani on anti-glamour quest for power


ROME (Reuters) - In an electoral landscape crowded with some of the most colourful personalities in European politics, Italy's centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani is a conspicuously unglamorous exception.

Bald, rumpled and habitually seen dragging on a stumpy Tuscan cigar, opinion polls suggest the 61-year-old head of the Democratic Party (PD) is the man most likely to lead the next government after elections on Sunday and Monday.

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