Italy: Center-Right Coalition Takes Lead

Voting Intention - Chamber of Deputies

	Sept. 2006	Jul. 2006
House of Freedom (Centre-Right) Forwards Italy (Forza Italia) National Alliance (AN) Northern League (LN) Union of Christian and Centre-Democrats (UDC) Christian Democracy (DC) and New Italian Socialist Party (Nuovo PSI) Other centre-right	49.5%	49.5%
Union (Centre-Left) Democrats of the Left (DS) Democracy and Liberty (La Margherita) Communist Refoundation Party (PRC) Italian Democratic Socialist (SDI) Popular Alliance (UDEUR) Party of Italian Communists (PCI) Green Federation (Verdi) Italian Socialist Party of Craxi (PSI-Craxi) Italy of Values (Lista di Pietro) Other centre-left	48.0%	48.9%
Other parties	2.5%	1.6%

Source: Ekma Ricerche Srl
Methodology: Telephone interviews with 1,000 Italian adults, conducted on Sept. 28 and Sept. 29, 2006. No margin of error was provided.