<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-family: tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Tensof thousands of people marched in rival far-right and anti-fascistdemonstrations across Italy, ahead of next weekend's election.</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:150%;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:150%;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Policesaid, 15 to 20,000 people attended a campaign rally in Milan led by MatteoSalvini, the head of anti-immigration group The League. The group, formerlyknown as the Northern League, is part of ex-prime minister Silvio Berlusconi'sright-wing coalition, which opinion polls suggest is leading ahead of the 4thof next month's polls. </span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:150%;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></p>''<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:150%;font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14pt;line-height:150%;font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Violencebriefly broke out at another Milan demonstration, with police in riot gearbriefly grappling with anti-fascist protests marching in reaction to a rally bythe neo-fascist CasaPound movement.</span></p>