News Summary

• Former actress, singer, MP and talk-show crusader Alessandra Mussolini, 63, won 56% of the public vote on Tuesday night.
• The country appeared to take her 'bossy, over the top, irresistible, strong-willed and light-hearted' attitude, as Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera described it.
• Her grandfather was infamous for allying with Hitler in the so-called Pact of Steel in 1939, banning Jewish people from public life and tearing up democracy in Italy.