Italians First!

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Anti-immigrant rhetoric and extravagant spending promises fill the airways, as Italy prepares for its general election. But can this debt-laden, low-growth country afford it all? The BBC's Mike Johnson travels across Italy to test the increasingly populist mood among voters. Meanwhile Elsa Fornero, economics professor at Turin University and a former labour minister expresses her concern at how unaffordable the campaign promises are. And finance professor Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business explains why financial markets aren't more nervous about the country's fiscal sustainability. Presented by Manuela Saragosa. (Picture: Lega Nord election rally; Credit: BBC)