It will be interesting to see how the journalists interpet this result.
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Centre-right parties win big in Sicily mayoral vote
 
PALERMO, Sicily, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Centre-right parties won mayoral 
elections in key Sicilian cities on Monday and brought an end to eight years 
of leftist administration in the capital, Palermo. 

Diego Cammarata of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party won 
with about 57 percent of the vote in Palermo, crushing the centre-left 
candidate Francesco Crescimanno, who took only 23 percent. 

In Palermo, the staggering defeat of the centre-left marked the end of the 
era marked by the rule of Leoluca Orlando, a charismatic politician who 
served as mayor from 1985 to 1900 and again from 1993 to this year. 

Orlando, who ran on an anti-Mafia platform and is credited with giving 
Palermo a new image after years of being in the shadow of organised crime, 
was barred by law from seeking a third consecutive term. 

Orlando ran for president of the Sicily region earlier this year but lost to 
a centre-right candidate. 

The centre-right, which scored heavily in Sicily in last May's national 
elections that brought Berlusconi to power, also won mayoral races in a 
number of of other important Sicilian cities.