The head of Italy's centre-left Democratic Party, Pier Luigi Bersani, has dismissed former premier Silvio Berlusconi's latest turnaround to drop out of the election race.

Berlusconi offered not to run if Prime Minister Mario Monti stepped in to head the centre-right coalition.

Bersani also appeared to be behind Monti's involvement in Italian politics:

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