Communists to support Prodi

ROME - Italy's Communist Refoundation party confirmed yesterday that it would help vote a centre left government into office …

ROME - Italy's Communist Refoundation party confirmed yesterday that it would help vote a centre left government into office following a general election that gave it the balance of power in the lower house of parliament.

"The issue of the government is now fully resolved," the party leader, Mr Fausto Bertinolli, said after talks with Prof Romano Prodi, head of the centre left Olive Tree bloc and Italy's effective prime minister in waiting.

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