Italy: Conservatives Lead Leftists by 7.5 pts

Voting Intention - Chamber of Deputies

	Nov. 2007	Oct. 2007	Sept. 2007
House of Freedom (Centre-Right) Forwards Italy (Forza Italia) National Alliance (AN) Northern League (LN) Union of Christian and Centre-Democrats (UDC) Liberal Reformers (RL) Christian Democracy (DC) Storace’s Right (La D di S) Other centre-right	53.5%	49.4%	49.7%
Union (Centre-Left) Democratic Party (PD) The Rose in the First (RnP) Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) Green Federation (Verdi) Party of Italian Communists (PCI) Italy of Values (Lista di Pietro) Popular Alliance (UDEUR) Italian Socialist Party of Craxi (PSI-Craxi) Other centre-left	46.0%	46.5%	45.0%
Other parties	0.5%	1.3%	1.8%

Source: Ekma Ricerche Srl
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 800 Italian adults, conducted on Nov. 9 to Nov. 11, 2007. Margin of error is 3.5 per cent.

Italy: Center-Right Coalition has 5 pt. Lead

Voting Intention - Chamber of Deputies

House of Freedom (Centre-Right) Forwards Italy (Forza Italia) National Alliance (AN) Northern League (LN) Christian Democracy (DC) and New Italian Socialist Party (Nuovo PSI) Social Alternative (AS) Tri-Coloured Flame Social Movement (MSFT) Other centre-right	48.0%
Union (Centre-Left) Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) Party of Italian Communists (PCI) Green Federation (Verdi) Democrats of the Left (DS) Democracy and Liberty (La Margherita) Italy of Values (Lista di Pietro) Italian Democratic Socialist (SDI) Popular Alliance (UDEUR) Italian Socialist Party of Craxi (PSI-Craxi) Other centre-left	43.0%
Casini + Follini (Centre) Union of Christian and Centre-Democrats (UDC) Middle-of-the-Road Italy (Italia di Mezzo)	7.0%
Other parties	2.0%

Source: IPR Marketing / La Repubblica
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,000 Italian adults, conducted from Mar. 29 to Mar. 31, 2007. No margin of error was provided.