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Not likely Related Topics World » Italy » By James Mackenzie and Steve Scherer ROME | Mon May 7, 2012 3:58pm EDT ROME (Reuters) - Left-wing and protest parties made strong gains in local elections on Monday and the centre-right party of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi saw heavy losses as Italian voters joined other Europeans in venting anger over austerity policies. The results, following the victory of French Socialist Francois Hollande and major losses for traditional big parties in Greece on Sunday, will add to pressure for European leaders to ease measures adopted to counter the financial crisis. While the vote was not directly about Prime Minister Mario Monti's government, for the two main parties that support his technocrat government in parliament, the centre-right People of Freedom (PDL) and the centre-left Democratic Party (PD), the vote was the biggest barometer of popular support for them ahead of national elections next year. The 5 Star Movement led by Beppe Grillo, a shaggy-haired comedian who wants Italy to quit the euro and whose caustic invective against the established parties has gained increasing resonance in the wake of a spate of corruption scandals, made some spectacular advances. In the northern city of Parma, it knocked Berlusconi's PDL which had previously ruled the city, into fifth place, winning a score of nearly 20 percent, while in Genoa, Grillo's hometown, it won 15 percent, knocking the PDL to fifth place, according to partial results. At its first political test in 2010 the movement, which organizes itself through the internet and social networks, won just 1.8 percent of the vote, rising to 3.4 percent at Milan's mayoral election the following year. "Grillo has confirmed his political existence. He's the big winner," said Maurizio Pessato, vice president of polling company SWG. "The weakness of the PDL was confirmed, and perhaps it's the biggest loser of this vote." PDL Secretary Angelino Alfano said: "There has been a defeat but this is not a catastrophe for the PDL." BIG WINS More than 9 million people or some 20 percent of the electorate were eligible to vote in more than 900 towns and cities across Italy in the first significant election since Monti took office in November. Painful tax hikes, pension cuts and unpopular labor reforms have fuelled mounting opposition to Monti since he came to power last year with a mandate to save Italy from a Greek-style debt emergency. He has placed increasing emphasis on reforms to promote growth in his recent public comments. The election of mayors and city councilors will have no direct impact on his ability to press on with the structural reforms he has promised to revive Italy's sickly economy and control its enormous public debt. But with national elections due in 2013 and a fragmented political landscape in which all of the main parties are in some form of trouble, Monti's ability to push ahead with unpopular reforms could be limited if the elections lead to waning support for his government. The PDL, still struggling to re-establish its identity after the fall of its scandal-prone founder Berlusconi last year, is in particular trouble and could be tempted to rebel against unpopular measures such as a much-hated property tax. "We support the Monti government but naturally we won't bind ourselves to vote for measures we don't agree with, that's absolutely logical," Berlusconi wrote on his Facebook page after the results. The PD said the vote was "a real political revolution" because the centre-left was in pole position in almost all the large towns that voted. "This is a real tsunami for the centre right," said Pier Luigi Bersani, the centre-left leader. 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