Italexit threat: Italy ‘dominated’ by Eurosceptics as populist right takes hold in poll
The Daily Express says: ITALY’s two main Eurosceptic parties have struck a blow on the nation’s political establishment by registering their fourth consecutive lead in opinion polls.
Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party obtained just 4.35 percent of the vote in the nation’s 2018 general election. But the most recent opinion poll suggests the surge in support for the Eurosceptic populist party has continued.
Pollsters at SWG asked 1,200 Italian electors how they would vote in a hypothetical general election.
Just over one-in-five – 20.6 percent – of respondents said they would vote for the Brothers of Italy.
The poll, conducted between July 28 and August 2, indicates the Eurosceptic Lega party would finish in second – narrowly behind on 20.3 percent of the vote.
While this is a slight increase on the 17.7 percent Matteo Salvini won in the 2018 general election, Lega has taken a backwards step since Salvini, then deputy Prime Minister, pulled the plug on Guiseppe Conte’s Government.
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