ROME, March 28 (Reuters) – Centre-left leader Pier Luigi
Bersani has failed in his attempt to find a way out of Italy’s
intractable political crisis and President Giorgio Napolitano
will now try to find another solution, the president’s palace
said on Thursday.

Bersani reported back to Napolitano on Thursday night after
being given a mandate almost a week ago to see if there was a
way to form a government after an inconclusive election in
February which plunged Italy into deadlock.

ROME, March 28 (Reuters) – Italy’s centre-left made a
last-ditch appeal to other parties on Thursday to clear the way
for a new government before its leader, Pier Luigi Bersani,
reports back to President Giorgio Napolitano later in the day.

Bersani, whose alliance fell short of the majority it would
need to govern after last month’s election, has made little
headway in five days of talks with rival parties.

ROME (Reuters) – Italian center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani was left with only slim hope of forming a government after last month’s deadlocked election as talks with rival party leaders ended with a further rejection from Beppe Grillo’s 5-Star Movement.

The impasse in Italy has been closely watched by investors mindful of the turmoil which brought down Silvio Berlusconi’s government in 2011 and was reflected in rising borrowing costs at a closely watched bond auction on Wednesday.

ROME (Reuters) – President Giorgio Napolitano asked centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani on Friday to assess whether he can win enough support in Italy’s divided parliament to form a government and end the political deadlock left by elections last month.

After two days of consultations with political leaders, Napolitano said he had given Bersani a mandate to talk to other parties and see if he can get the guaranteed support needed for a vote of confidence in both houses of parliament, where no single group has a workable majority.

ROME, March 22 (Reuters) – Italian President Giorgio
Napolitano called centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani to a
meeting on Friday, suggesting he may ask the former industry
minister to seek support from other parties to form a government
and end political deadlock.

Napolitano completed two days of consultations with party
leaders on Thursday after an election last month which gave the
centre-left control of the lower house but left it short of a
majority in the Senate, meaning it cannot govern alone.

ROME, March 22 (Reuters) – Italian parties reacted
sceptically on Friday to centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani’s
call for a government backed by all political forces,
complicating President Giorgio Napolitano’s efforts to end the
stalemate left by last month’s election.

Napolitano has ended consultations with the parties to try
to form a government after the election which gave the
centre-left control of the lower house but left it short of a
majority in the Senate and thus unable to govern alone.

ROME, March 21 (Reuters) – Italy’s political parties
remained far apart on Thursday as President Giorgio Napolitano
sought to form a government after last month’s deadlocked
election left no group with a majority in parliament.

The election gave Democratic Party leader Pier Luigi
Bersani’s centre-left alliance with the leftist SEL party a
majority in the lower house but not in the Senate, leaving it
unable to govern without the support of other parties.

ROME, March 21 (Reuters) – Italy’s divided political parties
remained far apart on Thursday as President Giorgio Napolitano
tried to form a government after last month’s deadlocked
election left no group with a majority in parliament.

The election gave Democratic Party leader Pier Luigi
Bersani’s centre-left alliance with the leftist SEL party a
majority in the lower house but not in the Senate, leaving it
unable to govern without the support of other parties.

ROME (Reuters) – Italian President Giorgio Napolitano starts consultations with political leaders on Wednesday to see if any of them has a chance of forming a government after last month’s election left no party with a majority in parliament.

Italy’s political stalemate and the prospect of months of political uncertainty has created alarm across Europe just as the standoff over bank deposits in Cyprus reawakened fears that the euro zone debt crisis could flare up again.

ROME (Reuters) – Italian President Giorgio Napolitano appealed to political leaders on Sunday to work together to form a government, but his appeal fell on deaf ears and pressure grew for a new poll after last month’s deadlocked election.

The threat of months of political instability following the inconclusive ballot has triggered warnings across Europe that Italy cannot afford to delay urgent reforms to shore up its massive public debt and boost its sickly economy, now stuck in recession for over a year.