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Italy Election NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome that Italian voters have returned billionaire Silvio Berlusconi to the prime minister's post -- a job he held for several months in 1994. Berlusconi is one of the world's richest men, with a fortune estimated at $12 billion. The European press had expressed misgivings about his fitness for office -- given his enormous potential for financial conflicts of interest and history of legal problems.

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NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Rome that Italian voters have returned billionaire Silvio Berlusconi to the prime minister's post — a job he held for several months in 1994. Berlusconi is one of the world's richest men, with a fortune estimated at $12 billion. The European press had expressed misgivings about his fitness for office — given his enormous potential for financial conflicts of interest and history of legal problems.