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Italy: Matteo Salvini’s League Party Doubles Popularity



Italy’s Lega (League) party has doubled in popularity since its election victory a year ago, according to a nationwide poll Monday.

At the time of national elections on March 4, 2018, fewer than one in five (17 percent) voters said they favored the League over any other party, whereas that figure today has nearly exactly doubled to 33.9 percent, making the League Italy’s favorite party by a significant margin.

In a distant second and third place are the Democratic Party (PD) and the League’s governing partner, the Five Star Movement (M5S), who command allegiance from 21.1 percent and 21 percent of Italians respectively. Monday marked the first time since the elections that the PD has polled higher than M5S, even if they did so by only a tenth of a percentage point.

The M5S has suffered a constant decline in popularity since elections a year ago, losing nearly 11 percentage points during this period.

The center-right coalition, on the other hand, which joined with M5S to form a national government, is stronger than ever, supported by nearly 47 percent of Italian voters. In elections last March, the center-right took 35 percent of the vote, the strongest showing at the time.

The current populist coalition government composed of the League and M5S enjoys an approval rating of 54 percent of Italians, according to another poll released on March 15.

Italy’s most popular political leader continues to be Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who is also the leader of the League. Salvini’s approval rating of 59 percent is the most important reason behind the meteoric rise of the League’s popularity throughout the Italian peninsula.

The blunt and seemingly fearless Salvini, an avid user of social media, has made curbing illegal immigration his number one goal, winning him the esteem of a significant majority of Italians.

Last year, a survey revealed that Mr. Salvini is the most trusted politician in the country.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019 ... opularity/

If this is an indication where the votes will go for the upcoming election for the Euro Parliament, it will be interesting...

[Varilion]

Salvini's Lega isn't exactly a new political party... they are in "the business" since decades. You still have that Italy is more or less 50/50 split between left and right. Salvini is mostly eating out the votes from Berlusconi, plus about a 5% from M5S.

So now we have, on the right wing:
Lega (Salvini) 30+%
Forza Italia (Berlusconi) 10-%
FdI (Meloni) 5 %

On the left wing you have:
PD 20+%
M5S 20+%

The rest is garbage.
However, between Lega and Forza Italia there are large overlaps, Lega is ahead mostly because Salvini is the new alpha-male, while Berlusconi has the same appeal of a mummy.

[SSDR]

It's really fucked up to see all of this far right politics, and Catholicism rising. They're also rising in Sweden, Britain, Deutschland, Austria, Russia, the Balkans, and even in North America.

This is far worse than the anarchist Antifa druggie shit. And Neo Nazism is a mixture of the two, small government tattooed druggies who are in the far right. And Neo Nazism is also rising. Terrible times.

[Varilion]

I am not so sure i would talk about Catholicism rising. For sure not in Italy. None of the political parties i listed above is really in line with the political tradition of democratic Catholicism. Okay Berlusconi pretends, but with limited credibility. Salvini and Meloni presents themselves as Christians, but only in ethno-nationalistic sense - miles away from the doctrine of the Roman Church (which is in the while moving toward left), whose last representatives got wiped out from the Italian political scene after the vote of last year.

It wouldn't surprise me to read that the favorite political party for "active Catholics" is PD... the secularist, left-wing liberals...

[SSDR]

@Varilion, But what the real threat's is that the far right is rising!

[Beren]

There'll be elections in Italy and Salvini will be prime minister this year, I guess.

[SSDR]

@Beren, It really doesn't matter. They are all right wing capitalists who LOVE money.

[Beren]

@Beren, It really doesn't matter. They are all right wing capitalists who LOVE money.

It doesn't really matter because Salvini appears to be quasi-PM anyway.

[Beren]

There'll be elections in Italy and Salvini will be prime minister this year, I guess.

Giuseppe Conte, a law professor who was plucked from obscurity a year ago to steer the coalition, issued the ultimatum to Salvini and M5S’s Luigi Di Maio during a press conference on Monday night, urging them to set aside their many differences and “revive the spirit” of the coalition government’s early days, or seek new elections.

It's new elections exactly what Salvini is seeking.