A glance at small parties running in Italy's general election

There are 32 candidates for premier backed by dozens of parties and groups running in Italy's general election. Here is a look at some of the small parties and candidates trailing the front-runners, Silvio Berlusconi and Walter Veltroni:

THE RAINBOW LEFT: A grouping of far-left parties, allies of the outgoing governing coalition, that formed after Veltroni decided his moderate Democratic Party would run alone.

_ The group, expected to be the third political force behind the two major blocs, includes Communists, Greens and other leftists.

_ Fausto Bertinotti, 68, the outgoing speaker of the lower house of Parliament and a longtime Communist …