While the right-wing governing party Lega, led by Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, is seeing more and more approval in Italy, the coalition partner, the five-star movement, faces a loss of image. According to a poll published today by the pollster Ipsos, the five-star movement dropped to a record low of 21.2 percent.
In a similar poll conducted in December, the popularity of the movement around Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio was 27 percent. In the parliamentary elections in March 2018, the political power had won 32.7 percent of the vote.
Lega doubles
The five-star movement is perceived in the public as politically rather inexperienced, experts explain the decline in votes. In the regional elections in Abruzzo and Sardinia in February, the movement had performed worse than expected.
The Lega reached 35.9 percent of the vote, according to the poll published by the Milan daily Corriere della Sera. In the parliamentary election in March 2018, it had been 17.4 percent.
