MILAN (AFX) - Italy's supreme court said the Romano Prodi-led centre left coalition, Unione, has won last week's election for the lower parliamentary house, confirming earlier TV reports. The Unione won 19,002,598 votes, while the centre-right House of Freedoms coalition, led by prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, won 18,977,843, giving a majority of 24,755, the court said. Under the latest proportional voting system, decreed by the Berlusconi administration, the winning coalition in the lower house automatically wins a premium to give it a clear majority.
Previous provisional counts for the lower house had given Prodi's coalition 348 seats to Berlusconi's 281.
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