Polls open for the second day of voting in the Italian general elections
Polls open for the second day of voting in the Italian general elections

Italians began voting for a second day on Monday in a national election being closely watched by Italy's eurozone partners as well as international investors.
The decisions that Italy makes over the next several months promise to have a profound impact on whether Europe can decisively put out the flames of its financial crisis.
With an economy almost 10 times the size of Greece's, Italy is simply too big a country for Europe - and the world - to see fail.
Leading the electoral field is Pier Luigi Bersani, a former communist who drafted liberalisation reforms under previous centre-left governments and supported tough measures pushed by incumbent Premier Mario Monti.
Silvio Berlusconi, who was forced from office in November 2011 by the debt crisis, has sought to close the gap by promising constituents to restore an unpopular tax - a tactic that brought him within a hair's breadth of winning the 2006 election.
Then there's the wild card: comic-turned-politician Beppe Grillo, whose protest movement against the entrenched political class has been drawing tens of thousands to rallies in piazzas across Italy.
"It's difficult to predict what will happen," said Rome resident Riccardo Ricci, who was among those who voted early at the Visconti polling station on Monday.
"I believe that unfortunately there will be an unmanageable government because the results won't be as clear as we expect them to be - that is, with a clear victory for the left-wing coalition," he added.
"I'm convinced that through this election we will have a more human political class," said fellow local resident Alessandro Di Gregorio.
The election appears to have seen a lower voter turnout than usual.
Turnout was 55 percent when polls closed on Monday night, 7 percentage points below that of the 2008 election.
Experts say a low turnout will hurt the mainstream parties; usually around 80 percent of the 50 million eligible voters go to the polls.
Italian elections are usually held in spring, and this balloting came amid bad weather in much of the country, including snow in the north.
Rain was forecast for much of the country on Monday.
Polls opened at 7 a.m. local time (0600 GMT) and will close at 3 p.m. (1400 GMT).