Many are going to the ballot box uninspired and anxious that, instead of a turning point, the election will prove a dead end A man walks past election campaign posters in Rome. Photograph: Stefano Rellandini/REUTERS In a classroom in central Rome, the topic of discussion was the Italian elections, and the white-board was scrawled with English words. Among them was the phrase "least worse". Amid lengthy discussions of the choice awaiting them at the ballot box, this - more than any other phrase - had emerged as crucial vocabulary. "Why is there not a good leader?" asked Monica, a 39-year-old NGO worker who will cast her vote for the technocrat-turned-politician Mario Monti. "It's terrible...
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