After World War II, Italy had a multiparty system dominated by the Christian Democratic Party and the Italian Communist Party until the early 1990s. In the early 1990s the Italian party system underwent a radical transformation, and the political center collapsed, leaving a right-left polarization of the party spectrum that threw the north-south divide into sharper contrast and gave rise to such political leaders as media magnate Silvio Berlusconi.
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