Giancarlo Cancelleri , candidate of tje Five Star Movement flashes the V-sign as he poses for photographers in Palermo on October 30, 2012 prior to a news confernce held after the official resaults of the Sicily regional election. Italian ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi’s People of Freedom party (PDL)lost a key regional election in Sicily seen as a barometer for national polls due in April, handing victory to a centre-left anti-Mafia candidate. With 75 percent of votes counted, Rosario Crocetta of the Democratic Party (PD) was leading with 31 percent, ahead of the PDL’s Sebastiano Musumeci with 25 percent, robbing him of what was once the centre-right’s stronghold on the Mediterranean island. TheFive Star Movement came in third behind the two main parties. The outsider, the anti-politics Five Star Movement, surprised observers by garnering 18 percent amid rising sentiment against the established parties and anger over rampant corruption, particularly in the Mafia stronghold. AFP PHOTO / MARCELLO PATERNOSTRO (Photo credit should read MARCELLO PATERNOSTRO/AFP/Getty Images)
