With all eyes on Italy’s parliamentary election last weekend, voting held on the same day for assemblies in two of the country’s most significant regions, Lazio and Lombardia, were somewhat overlooked. In both, regional Presidencies were retained by the incumbent parties – easily in the case of the Centre Right alliance in Lombardia, and narrowly […]
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Election result: Sicily regional election 2017
Italy’s resurgent centre-right, powered by Forza Italia, won a clear victory in Sunday’s regional election in Sicily. Nello Musumeci, the candidate of a diverse alliance of right-wing and centrist forces, finished five percentage points clear of his Five Star rival Giancarlo Cancelleri in the race for the regional Presidency, winning nearly 40 per cent of […]
Election results: Italian communal elections 2017
Yesterday’s second round of voting in Italian communal elections saw significant gains for Centre Right coalitions within which Forza Italia and the Lega Nord (Northern League) played leading roles. Centre Left forces based around the Partito Democratico (PD) lost control of more than 30 towns and cities. ‘Civic Lists’, usually comprising local independent politicians, did […]
Review: Italian polling in March
March 2017 will go down as the month when the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) established a clear polling lead over the ruling Democratic Party (PD). Beset by the defection of a left-wing bloc and embroiled in a leadership contest that many did not desire, the centre-left PD has lost significant ground – notwithstanding Five […]
Best score of 2017 with EMG for Grillo
Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement (M5S) is incrementally widening its lead over the ruling Democratic Party (PD) with a number of pollsters at present. For example, last night’s EMG Acqua survey for LA7’s news programme gives the anti-establishment party its best score of 2017 in this weekly series. M5S is now back to […]
Italy: 5 Star opens up 5 point lead
Today’s Ipsos PA poll for Milan’s Corriere della Sera newspaper confirms a significant shift in Italian voting intentions, with the Movimento 5 Stelle opening up a 5.5 per cent lead of the governing PD – after a period when the country’s two biggest forces have bascially been polling neck-and-neck. The reported score of […]