Bersani, bottom right, will need to hold together a center-left coalition to govern in Italy
It speaks volumes about the flakiness of Italian politics that the candidate most likely to emerge as Prime Minister from Italy's elections on Feb. 24 and 25 identifies as his greatest adversary a man who claims not even to be competing for the top job. Pier Luigi Bersani, 61, the leader of the left-of-center Democratic Party, is campaigning as the anti-Silvio Berlusconi, the media tycoon and three-time Premier whose last stint in power ended in November 2011 amid an underage-sex scandal and market turmoil. Berlusconi has told allies that he will not seek to become Prime Minister if his People of...
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