At time of writing Claudio Ranieri was still the manager of Juventus, but it is increasingly hard to imagine him staying in that job beyond the end of the season after his side failed to win for the fifth week in a row, drawing 2 2 at home to Lecce.
Results: Atalanta 0 1 Reggina, Cagliari 2 0 Napoli, Catania 2 0 Sampdoria, Genoa 0 1 Lazio, Juventus 1 1 Internazionale, Milan 5 1 Torino, Palermo 4 1 Bologna, Roma 3 2 Lecce, Siena 0 2 Chievo, Udinese 3 1 Fiorentina.
Fiorentina also lost, 3 1 away to Udinese, while Roma themselves beat Lecce 3 2.
Results: Bologna 3 1 Catania, Fiorentina 0 2 Milan, Genoa 4 1 Lecce, Inter 4 3 Atalanta, Juventus 2 0 Lazio, Napoli 3 0 Chievo, Palermo 2 2 Sampdoria, Reggina 1 1 Siena, Roma 3 2 Torino, Udinese 6 2 Cagliari Final Serie A table Watch video highlights of the last day of the Serie A season.
Results: Bologna 1 2 Reggina, Catania 0 2 Milan, Fiorentina 1 0 Torino, Genoa 3 1 Sampdoria, Internazionale 2 0 Lazio, Juventus 2 2 Lecce, Palermo 5 1 Cagliari, Roma 0 0 Chievo, Siena 2 1 Napoli, Udinese 3 0 Atalanta Latest Serie A standings.
In the data that Messrs Alesina, Carloni and Lecce use, coalitions tightened the national belt in 9.9% of the years they were in office about the same as single-party governments, which did so in 10.1% of years.The results from a different measure of political strength whether or not a government had an absolute majority in the legislature are similar.
IT WAS Massimo D'Alema, a former prime minister and chairman of the ex-communist Democrats of the Left, who rocked the boat by declaring on television that in the general election due on May 13th he would stand only in his constituency round Lecce, in the heel of Italy.
Confronting them, rather than the entire electorate, may be the really difficult task for governments that want to make the numbers add up.* "The Electoral Consequences of Large Fiscal Adjustments", by Alberto Alesina, Dorian Carloni and Giampaolo Lecce.
But a new paper* by Alberto Alesina of Harvard University, Dorian Carloni of the University of California at Berkeley and Giampaolo Lecce of New York University finds little historical support for it.
Lecce, city, Puglia (Apulia) regione, southeastern Italy.
The nobility of the kingdom supported the popular Tancred of Lecce (1190 94), as did the English king, Richard I (the Lion-Heart), the old ally of King William II of Sicily.
