AMONG the souvenirs in Gabriele Albertini’s office is an old typewriter that belonged to Indro Montanelli, a conservative editor whose clash with (and split from) his proprietor, Silvio Berlusconi, is a journalistic legend in Italy. Mr Albertini, a former mayor of Milan who was elected to the European Parliament for Mr Berlusconi’s People of Freedom (PdL), has followed him by running for governor of Lombardy without a PdL endorsement.
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