Italian Elections and Politics 2022 - Our Time to Schlein

[crals]

Can somebody please explain the current platform differences between Lega and Fratelli d’Italia?

Lega still wants authonomy for Northern Regions...Hermanos de Italia, I don't think the are big fans of it.

The Lega still wants that? I thought they had basically given up on it when they expanded to the South

[crals]

Average of the polls conducted in the past week:
FdI 22.8%
PD 22.2%
Lega 14.6%
M5S 11.0%
FI 8.2%
+E/Azione 4.6%
Misc. left of PD 4.4%
IV 2.6%
Italexit (lol) 2.4%

So yeah. On those numbers a united right is at 45.6%, enough to win a comfortable majority even if there's some degree of consolidation. Of course it's not necessarily impossible to bring it down - especially as they're catching a lot of flak for their role in torpedoing Draghi in this final act. We'll see how it plays out, but this is the election that should make you nervous if you care about the future of the EU and NATO.

Di Maio nowhere to be seen?

[crals]

Bizarre that Italy has so many one-man-show microparties when the electoral system is so punishing

[crals]

So the combined total of the PD and friends, Conte and Renzi/Calenda is not too far away from the right-wing alliance, but they might hand them a two thirds majority nonetheless thanks to egos and the very questionable electoral system. How depressing.

[crals]

According to a "forbidden poll" conducted by BiDiMedia this week, no big changes compared with the last polls from two weeks ago:

https://twitter.com/ElElectoral/status/1573077474246021120

What a collapse for Lega and FI. Meloni is carrying the right on her back.

[crals]

Salvini has a point. Why doesn't Meloni want him in the government?