Thousands of people marched in Milan to demand the resignation of Italy's Premier Silvio Berlusconi Feb. 5. Some of the country's foremost progressive intellectuals, including Umberto Eco [2] and anti-mafia author Roberto Saviano [3], as well as union leaders and others, addressed the crowd. (AP [4], Feb. 5) Some 70,000 also marched Serbia [5]'s parliament building in Belgrade, demanding early elections—but here, the populist space was assumed by the right, with Tomislav Nikolic [6] of the nationalist Serbian Progress Party (SNS) addressing the crowd. (AFP [7], Feb. 5)
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