<span style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif, arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: justify;">Voting is underway in Italy to elect a new government. Polling stations close at 11 PM with exit polls due immediately afterwards.&nbsp;<br style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif, arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: justify;" />''<br style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif, arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: justify;" />''Pollsters have predicted that former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi and his far-right allies will emerge as the largest bloc in parliament, but fall short of a parliamentary majority.&nbsp;<br style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif, arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: justify;" />''<br style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif, arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: justify;" />''The anti-establishment 5-Star Movement looks set to be the biggest single party, feeding off discontent over entrenched corruption and growing poverty, while the ruling centre-left Democratic Party (PD) is seen limping home in third place.&nbsp;<br style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif, arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: justify;" />''<br style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif, arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: justify;" />''The vote is being held under a complex new electoral law which means the final result might not be clear until late Monday.&nbsp;<br style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif, arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: justify;" />''<br style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif, arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: justify;" />''Although all party leaders have ruled out any post-election alliances with rivals, Italy has a long history of finding a way out of apparently intractable political stalemate.&nbsp;<br style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif, arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: justify;" />''<br style="color: #000000; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif, arial; font-size: 10.6667px; text-align: justify;" />''But if, as expected, no-one clinches a clearcut victory today, it might take weeks before a government deal is reached.</span>