Leftist Pier Luigi Bersani gives a press conference to announce he lost bid to form new government, after his meeting with President Giorgio Napolitano on March 28, 2013 at the Quirinale, the Italian presidential palace in Rome. The former Communist, given a mandate last week to try to forge a bloc strong enough to govern the eurozone’s third largest economy, met President Giorgio Napolitano at around today to say whether he has the parliamentary backing needed to rule. AFP PHOTO / ALBERTO PIZZOLI (Photo credit should read ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images)