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Italy's protest party, Five Star Movement, fares badly at local elections, while the left recovers.
It failed to win any of more than 500 mayoral races, or make it into run-off votes in any big cities.
In February the party, led by charismatic former comedian Beppe Grillo, won a quarter of the vote.
The centre-left Democratic Party of Prime Minister Enrico Letta appears to have done best.
Five Star did not make it into run-offs in any of the 16 provincial capitals being contested although they it appears they will go to a second round in at least three small towns around the country.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22690165
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