On March 4, 2018 the citizens of Italy went to the ballot box to choose the new members of the Chamber of Deputies and Senators. Roughly two weeks before the election day, the polls were led by the anti-establishment party The Five Star Movement (Movimento 5 Stelle), founded in 2009 by an Italian comedian Beppe Grillo. Grillo’s group, supported by 27 percent of the voting population, has overtaken the democratic party (Partito Democratico) in the poll on voters’ intention, resulting five percent ahead of its opposition. The right-wing, eurosceptic and anti-immigrant party Lega Nord ranked fourth, with 13.4 percent of Italians planning to support them in the upcoming election.
Anti-establishment and right-wing coalition
The results of the election confirmed the leading position of Movimento 5 Stelle and the centre-right block. Over one-third of the citizens’ votes went to The Five Star Movement, whereas about 17 percent of Italians stamped a cross in the voting square of Lega Nord. The support for Partito Democratico turned out lower than predicted by the polls and the party scored 18.7 percent in the ballots. Since no political group reached the majority requested to create the government, the leaders of Five Stars and Lega begun negotiations on a coalition. After about three-month-long discussions the parties came to an agreement and a populist Italian government under the leadership of the Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte was sworn in on June 1, 2018.
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Termometro Politico. (February 20, 2018). Voting intention in the parliamentary elections in Italy on March 4th, 2018 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 13, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/767467/voting-intention-in-parliamentary-elections-in-italy/
Termometro Politico. "Voting intention in the parliamentary elections in Italy on March 4th, 2018." Chart. February 20, 2018. Statista. Accessed December 13, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/767467/voting-intention-in-parliamentary-elections-in-italy/
Termometro Politico. (2018). Voting intention in the parliamentary elections in Italy on March 4th, 2018. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 13, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/767467/voting-intention-in-parliamentary-elections-in-italy/
Termometro Politico. "Voting Intention in The Parliamentary Elections in Italy on March 4th, 2018." Statista, Statista Inc., 20 Feb 2018, https://www.statista.com/statistics/767467/voting-intention-in-parliamentary-elections-in-italy/
Termometro Politico, Voting intention in the parliamentary elections in Italy on March 4th, 2018 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/767467/voting-intention-in-parliamentary-elections-in-italy/ (last visited December 13, 2024)
Voting intention in the parliamentary elections in Italy on March 4th, 2018 [Graph], Termometro Politico, February 20, 2018. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/767467/voting-intention-in-parliamentary-elections-in-italy/