ROME (Reuters) - Italy's centre-left alliance scraped a narrow victory in a vote to appoint the new speakers of parliament on Saturday but the fragile margin of success underlined how hard it will be to form a stable government after last month's deadlocked election.
The appointment of the speakers was parliament's first act since the February election, in which the centre-left formation of Pier Luigi Bersani won a lower house majority but not enough to control the Senate and form a government.
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