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ROME — Italians voted Saturday in European Parliament elections that have become a virtual barometer of Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s ability to weather a scandal over his attention to young women.
Despite a recession and unemployment aggravated by the global economic crisis, the scandal has become the focus of Saturday’s and today’s balloting for 72 deputies from Italy for the European Union’s legislature. Italians were also voting for local governments in dozens of town and provinces.
Other nations voting in European elections on Saturday were Cyprus, Malta, Slovakia and Latvia.
