Berlusconi surges in polls ahead of February election

EurActiv reported that Italy's centre-left coalition, led by Pier Luigi Bersani, had a comfortable lead in opinion polls in January 2013, less than two months before the general election, but Silvio Berlusconi's party was fast raising its share of the vote, according to a poll published on the 6 January 2013.

Silvio Berlusconi was said to be planning 'guerrilla warfare' in parliament after the elections confident that his renewed pact with the rightwing Northern League would deny an outright victory to centre-left rivals

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