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(About Berlusconi) The fall of his leadership worries me, it could block the process of building a democracy of alternation in Italy. (May 31, 1996)

— Massimo D'Alema

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As quoted in Marco Travaglio, Ad personam, Chiarelettere, Milano, 2010, p. 110. ISBN 978-88-6190-104-9.

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