To Most Europeans, the result in Italy must have seemed bewildering. For a month Silvio Berlusconi has been enmeshed in a sex scandal that might have forced any other leader from office. The day before the vote, it became spicier. El Pat's, a Spanish newspaper, published photographs impounded in Italy showing unidentified topless beauties by the pool at Mr Berlusconi's Sardinian villa and a naked Mirek Topolanek, a former Czech prime minister. Yet Mr Berlusconi's People of Freedom (PDL) still emerged with 35.3% of the vote, nine points ahead of the opposition Democratic Party (PD).
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机译：对大多数欧洲人来说，在意大利的结果一定让人感到困惑。西尔维奥·贝卢斯科尼（Silvio Berlusconi）陷入了一个性丑闻，可能迫使其他任何领导人离职一个月。投票的前一天，它变得更加有趣。西班牙报纸《 El Pat's》刊登了在意大利扣押的照片，显示贝卢斯科尼先生的撒丁岛别墅和裸体的前捷克总理米勒克·托波拉内克（Merek Topolanek）池旁的身份不明的裸照美女。然而，贝卢斯科尼先生的“自由人民”（PDL）仍然以35.3％的选票出现，比反对党民主党（PD）领先9分。
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