Far-Right Coalition Wins Victory in Italian Elections

[Webster]

(The Guardian) Clear victory for rightwing coalition, exit poll indicates
OK, the first exit poll is in, and it’s good news for Giorgia Meloni and the far-right Brothers of Italy.

According to the Consorzio Opinio Italia poll for Rai, the rightwing coalition has won between 41-45% of the vote and the left alliance 25-29.%. That would give the right a majority in both houses.

At this point we should make our regular health warning: Italian exit polls have a very chequered history, and are sometimes wrong. It’s well worth waiting for the projections to come.

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That poll would give the rightwing coalition between 227 and 257 seats in the Camera dei deputati and between 111 and 131 seats in the Senate or upper house.

Obviously those numbers are still vague, but they point to a resounding victory for the rightwing alliance of the far-right Brothers of Italy, the rightwing Forza Italia and the far-right Lega.

If that happens, Meloni is likely to be Italy’s next prime minister: its first woman at the head of a government, and that government the most rightwing since the second world war.

 

[Webster]

(The Guardian) Exit poll results in full
To breakdown those exit poll results in full…
--In total the rightwing alliance is set to win between 41 and 45% of the vote.
--Meloni’s Brothers of Italy are on course to win 22-26%, Salvini’s Lega between 8.5% and 12.5%, and Berlusconi’s Forza Italia a very modest 6-8%. (That is why Meloni is the clear frontrunner for prime minister.)
--The centre-left, if this exit poll proves right, is on course to garner between 17 and 21% of the vote – not so far behind the Brothers of Italy. But their alliance partners are smaller.
--The combined forces of Matteo Renzi and Carlo Calenda’s parties have managed between 6.5% and 8.5%, according to the exit poll.
--And the Five Star Movement, which pulled the plug on Mario Draghi’s government? Between 13.5% and 17.5%.

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Angela Giuffrida, the Guardian’s Italy correspondent, has filed a story based on those exit poll results, remarking: If exit polls are correct, the Italian president, Sergio Mattarella, is expected to hand Meloni a mandate to form a government that, if everything goes smoothly, could be in place by the end of October.

(Nothing happens particularly quickly in Italian politics.)

It is likely to be a government with some good friends among Europe’s rightwing populists, she adds. -- The coalition’s expected victory, however, raises questions about the country’s alliances in Europe as the continent enters a winter likely to be dominated by high energy prices and its response to Russian aggression in Ukraine. Meloni has sought to send reassuring messages, but the prospect of her as prime minister is unlikely to be welcomed in Paris or Berlin.

Germany’s governing Social Democratic party warned last week that her win would be bad for European cooperation. Lars Klingbeil, the chairman of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s SPD, said Meloni had aligned herself with “anti-democratic” figures such as Hungary’s prime minister, Viktor Orbán.

Earlier this month, Meloni’s MEPs voted against a resolution that condemned Hungary as “a hybrid regime of electoral autocracy”. Meloni is also allied to Poland’s ruling nationalist Law and Justice party, the anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats and Spain’s far-right Vox party.

 

[Webster]

 

[DrLeftover]

Big deal.

Italy changes governments more often than I get a haircut.

What do you want to bet that before the World Cup is over, there's a new government there?

 

[Webster]

Italy changes governments more often than I get a haircut.

*deadpans* That's a lot of haircuts, Doc...

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

Far right 😂 I’m happy she won but she is a center right conservative.

 

[Webster]

What do you want to bet that before the World Cup is over, there's a new government there?

And lose that bet, Doc? No thank you....

Far right 😂 I’m happy she won but she is a center right conservative.

With allies like Matteo Salvini's Lega Nord? Yeah, she is far-right. 🙄

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

And lose that bet, Doc? No thank you....

With allies like Matteo Salvini's Lega Nord? Yeah, she is far-right. 🙄

Nothing she says or in her policies is far right. I’m a ultra libertarian far right conservative. She would barely be allowed in my clubhouse.