{"id":331,"date":"2006-04-12T08:48:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-12T16:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=331"},"modified":"2006-04-12T08:49:07","modified_gmt":"2006-04-12T16:49:07","slug":"italian-elections-berlusconi-refuses-to-concede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/04\/12\/italian-elections-berlusconi-refuses-to-concede\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Elections: Berlusconi Refuses to Concede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_04_12_italy.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_04_12_uprising.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/41552000\/jpg\/_41552110_1berlap203c.jpg\"\/><em>GUEST: Diletta Varlese, FSRN Correspondent in Italy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Italians went to the polls this week to choose a new prime minister. The official winner of the election is centre-left leader Romano Prodi. But incumbent leader, Silvio Berlusconi is contesting the results and has called for a vote recount. Berlusconi is Italy&#8217;s richest man, estimated to be worth $12 billion. He essentially controls the media in Italy &#8211; his investment company controls the three biggest private television stations. And his appointees run the public ones. He runs a business empire that also includes advertising, insurance, food, and construction. Berlusconi has fought off repeated allegations of corruption. He has also been a staunch ally of US President Bush in the war on Iraq. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Diletta Varlese, FSRN Correspondent in Italy Italians went to the polls this week to choose a new prime minister. The official winner of the election is centre-left leader Romano Prodi. But incumbent leader, Silvio Berlusconi is contesting the results and has called for a vote recount. Berlusconi is Italy&#8217;s richest man, estimated to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}