After breaking the coalition with the populist Five-Star Movement, Italy’s right-wing populist Lega Party has lost approval from Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, according to a poll by pollster Winpoll that published Sunday’s Milan-based business paper Sole 24 Ore , it fell from 38.9 to 33.7 percent compared to July 30.
In the European elections in May, the Lega had 34.3 percent get. After the break with the five-star movement, the Lega now endeavors to revive the existing coalition in ongoing negotiations to find a new governing majority.
The five-star movement, which was the strongest party in the last parliamentary election so far, would now receive only 16 percent of the vote in a new election, according to the poll. That would be 1.8 percentage points more than the 30 July survey and 0.5 percentage points less than the May EU election.
41 percent of Italians for new elections
41 percent of those polled were in favor of a new election, the poll also revealed. 83 percent of Lega supporters push for a new election in an alliance with the right-wing conservative Forza Italia to former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and the post-fascist party Fratelli d’Italia (Dt .: Brothers of Italy).
After the resignation of the non-party Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, the parties represented in Parliament have until Tuesday time for talks, which should lead from the Legal boss Salvini against the background of good poll ratings triggered government crisis. After that, President Sergio Mattarella will launch a second round of political consultations. Should this come to an end without result, there would be a new election, as Salvini previously wanted.
