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ROME (AP) — Ten "wise men" will try to do what Italy's bickering politicians haven't been able to accomplish since inconclusive elections in late February — figure out a formula to help form a new government fast for the recession-mired nation as financial markets impatiently await an end to the impasse.
President Giorgio Napolitano created the panel of experts last week after center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani failed to form a governing coalition with wide support in Parliament, and the 10 members will have their first meeting with him at the Quirinal Presidential Palace on Tuesday, which coincides with the resumption of financial trading after the long Easter weekend.

Napolitano has referred to the group as working committees, while the media and other politicians immediately dubbed them the "10 wise men."
Bersani's forces won the lower Chamber of Deputies in the elections, but fell short of controlling the Senate. He refused the offer of archrival Silvio Berlusconi, the former center-right premier whose coalition finished runner-up, to form a "grand coalition" government. And the third bloc in the gridlocked political puzzle, the anti-establishment, anti-euro newcomer, 5-Star Movement headed by comic Beppe Grillo, refused to back anybody but themselves for the job of governing Italy.

The panel, including lawmakers, professors and a central bank official, will try to devise a reform agenda that a broad spectrum of parties can embrace, especially electoral and economic reforms, in a bid to avoid new elections soon.
They're hardly impartial. Several of them have been lawmakers in either Bersani's or Berlusconi's parties. Another panel member is a minister in the caretaker government of Mario Monti, who was appointed in late 2011 to replace Berlusconi as premier as Italy veered toward the abyss of the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis.

European Union and central banking officials credit Monti with keeping Italy from succumbing to the crisis. But voters resoundingly rejected his harsh medicine for financial recovery — higher taxes, slashed government spending and tightening the generous national pension system. Monti's new centrist movement finished a poor fourth in the balloting, as Italians tired of making financial sacrifices that weren't coupled with measures to jumpstart the economy and reduce soaring unemployment.
But while Napolitano's goal in setting up the panel was to help find common ground among potential government coalition partners, about the only thing politicians seemed to agree about it was they were skeptical about what it could accomplish.

"Either a political government is born" quickly or, "we do what comes naturally in a democracy, return to the polls," Berlusconi ally Maurizio Gasparri said. "Let hope it's not just a delaying tactic" to put off new elections, Gasparri told Sky TG24 TV Monday in a phone interview. Berlusconi, on trial in Milan in criminal cases which he says are part of a campaign by leftist sympathizers to end his political career, could try again for a comeback if elections are called soon.

A veteran Radical party leader and former European Union commissioner, Emma Bonino, echoing a common criticism, said the panel was hardly representative of Italians — for starters, there were no women, she noted. "Can you imagine if the president picked 10 women? Everybody would have said, 'There's something wrong here,'" Bonino said wryly on Radio Radicale.

Bonino, touted by some to be a potential successor to Napolitano after his own term runs out next month, sounded pessimistic that the panel could come up with a formula that could unite Italy's squabbling parties. "I can remember many commissions of 'sages' in my long political career. And the results have never been very brilliant," she said.
Also skeptical was a 5-Star Movement senator, Paola Nugnes. "It still isn't clear to me what these 'wise men" have to do, and how they'll operate," she said on Facebook.

Levi

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Price

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Harada

Me too! Hmm "@OfficiallyGT: Looking at the Grand National runners and riders. Hmmm...."

Gray

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In the Grand National, ill now mark your card....
We want all the runners back safe in their yard

Hashimoto

Online bookies crashing faster than Grand National runners........

Bhowmick

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Ikeda

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Clark

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Phillips

So glad all the grand national runners and jockeys came back safe and well :)

Cox

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Robinson

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Bennett

Eyeing up the meat on the slow runners at the Grand National. #Tesco #Burger #JustSayNeigh

Cooper

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Sharma

What do you drive- Chevy, dodge or ford?

Morales

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Murphy

Another Parliamentary byelection in Feira/Lwangwa as Patrick Ngoma resigns.

Lín

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Brown

Good to see all of the Grand National runners made it back safe on saturday. http://t.co/mJ5KoIsCPn.
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Maeda

Looking for 96-97 Nissan KA24E 2.4L engine. Come on facebook nation! :-)

García

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Sengupta

Bets on almost half the runners in the grand national. Fingers in pies and all that #keemon

Wright

Form study for the Grand National always worthwhile. After all, there are loads of races over 4 miles+ with 40 runners & giant fences.

Howard

The 2013 Grand National: It was a calmer, less deeply distressing race to watch compared with last year. With the ground favouring horses staying on their feet, there were fewer fallers, and less evident exhaustion. However, out of 93 runners entered into the three races on the Grand National course this week, two horses died, several fell, and a large number pulled up - some possibly injured. The course, therefore, still presents a potentially lethal challenge to horses.

Reed

Alright fans its time for the great debate!!!
FORD or CHEVY??? You decide and tell us why???

Davies

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Miller

Which game do you wish would never end?

Itō

All runners back sound from the weekend runs. The girls still on a high from watching The grand national! @katiedowson @gemilou81 #happyteam

Martínez

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Ogawa

In pain today, tired, would love a bit of peace! Lets see the if any of my runners in the Grand National will cheer me up.

Powell

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Scott

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Gairola

Raila: I wish the president-elect Uhuru Kenyatta and his team well

Campbell

Two positives; 1) all 40 runners and riders came home safely after the Grand National and 2) the return of Abidal for Barca!