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"Voting already began on Saturday afternoon and will continue today all the way until 11pm local time," said Seema Gupta, FRANCE24's correspondent in Rome. "Some 50 million Italians are eligible to vote in this election, in the EU's third largest economy. Italy has 76 out of the 720 seats in the parliament, so it could play a crucial role in deciding the balance of power in the Union."