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Sergio Mattarella
SERGIO Mattarella has been re-elected to serve a second term as Italian president after coalition parties failed to agree a compromise candidate after six days of voting.
The octogenarian had previously stated that he was standing down after seven years in the role, but said Prime Minister Mario Draghi persuaded him to stay for the stability of the country.
Mr Mattarella said he felt “a sense of responsibility” to remain in post with Italy facing tough economic challenges and a potentially fractious coalition government.
Italians reject controversial judiciary reforms in a referendum that boosts the left, reports NICK WRIGHT
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership
ANSELM ELDERGILL is a member of Your Party and he suggests how the new party should reform Britain’s constitution