"I am in favor of bipolarism; I consider it a value. Despite all its limitations, it has brought about a change in the ruling class, which remains the most significant achievement of the Second Republic. But it has been a crude form of bipolarism, marked by the figure of Berlusconi, and today it needs to be rebuilt on European foundations."
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Io sono per il bipolarismo, lo considero un valore. Nonostante tutti i suoi limiti ha avviato un ricambio della classe dirigente che resta l'acquisizione più significativa della Seconda Repubblica. Ma è stato un bipolarismo rozzo, segnato dalla figura di Berlusconi e oggi va rifondato su basi europee. — As quoted in D'Alema: puntare al 60% con un nuovo centrosinistra, corriere.it (October 16, 2011)
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Massimo D'Alema
Massimo D'Alema (born 20 April, 1949) is an Italian politician and journalist who was the 53rd prime minister of Italy from 1998 to 2000. He was Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2006 to 2008. D'Alema also served for a time as national secretary of the Democratic Party of the Left (PDS). Earlier in his career, D'Alema was a member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) and was the first former Communist party member to become prime minister of a NATO count
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