Italian politicians drop trousers in budget protest
Around 50 left-wing municipal officials dropped their trousers at Rome’s city hall on Monday to call for the speedy passage of the Italian capital’s 2010 budget.

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“Alemanno has reduced us to our underwear,” read one protester’s poster, referring to the city’s right-wing mayor Gianni Alemanno.
“Parks and gardens abandoned,” “Homeless people, empty homes,” others read.
Sandro Medici, the


