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But his centre-left supporters "presumed wrongly that if they got rid of (former prime minister Silvio) Berlusconi everything would be all right," said analyst James Walston.The Italian leader's fragile centre-left coalition, which has only barely managed to stay afloat since winning elections in April 2006 by a handful of votes, faces a make-or-break vote of confidence in the Senate on Thursday.
Italy's looking desperate," Walston, a political science professor at the American University of Rome, told AFP.
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Fighting tax evasion, Prodi has "at least managed to get a lot more Italians to pay what they owe," Walston told AFP.