00:09:57, May 03, 2001

The former high-ranking employee of the Eurocommission Emma Bonino has been

hospitalized today in Milan.

5 days ago she declared a hunger-strike to protest against unfair

elucidation of the future Italian elections by the media.

Despite deterioration of her state of health, Bonino still refuses food and

medical aid. Presently Bonino heads the Radical party and considers that the

TV, radio and newspapers don't give enough attention to such small party

organizations before elections. Now the telechannels concentrate their

attention on the pre-election campaign of the conservative media-tycoon

Silvio Berlusconi and his main rival, the left-centrist ex-mayor of Rome

Francesco Rutelli.

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