Italy's new parliament is about to meet for the first time, with no sign that a deadlock over the formation of a governing coalition has been broken.
The first job of MPs, nearly three weeks after the election, is to pick speakers of the lower house and Senate.
Efforts by centre-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani to forge a political agreement with the anti-establishment Beppe Grillo have so far been rebuffed.
His Five-Star Movement (M5S) brings some 163 new house and Senate members.
None of Mr Grillo's M5S members have served in parliament before.
They also change the demographics of parliament quite dramatically, being much younger, on average, than many of their counterparts.
A lot of them are women - raising the proportion to around 31%, from 20% previously.
Berlusconi sidelinedPresident Giorgio Napolitano is due to begin consultations with party leaders over the new government next Tuesday.
While Mr Bersani's narrow victory guaranteed him an automatic majority in the lower house, he cannot govern without control of the Senate too.
He does not have a majority in the Senate and is therefore dependent on the support of other parties.
He has ruled out working with Silvio Berlusconi, the former prime minister and head of the centre-right People of Freedom party, who came second.
But his approaches to Mr Grillo appear so far to have fallen on deaf ears.
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