


Photos Show U.S., NATO Military Drills for 'Combat-Readiness' in Europe.Russia Sends Jets With Hypersonic Missiles to NATO Borders for 24/7 Duty.Six Viktor Orbán Remarks That Got Biggest Cheers From CPAC Texas Crowd.The party alone is estimated to be backed by 24.3 percent of voters, according to the poll mentioned by Bloomberg, which means Brothers of Italy has the single highest number of prospected votes and could potentially obtain a landslide victory in the September election.īrothers of Italy was the only party to remain out of Draghi's coalition, distinguishing itself as an outsider within the political system-a position that generally seems to favor parties in Italy, if the success of the Five Star Movement years ago can be taken as an example. The once-popular Five Star Movement effectively collapsed last year after several broken promises, losing the mass support it had gathered a few years ago.īut the way Brothers of Italy, in particular, has grown its support base in recent years tells a different story about where the country is at right now.īrothers of Italy, a party that was born from the ashes of Benito Mussolini's Italian Social Movement, has gone from gaining 4 percent of the vote in the 2018 election to now being at the helm of a coalition expected to be backed by 50 percent of voters. The popularity of the right-wing bloc in Italy is widely credited to the inability of center-left and left-wing parties to come together to offer a valid alternative. The withdrawal of support from the League and Forza Italia for Draghi's unity government was seen by many in Italy as an opportunistic move from the parties, accused of putting their chances of winning a potential election over the stability of the country. On both occasions, the prime minister decided to tend his resignations, which were finally accepted by Italy's president Sergio Mattarella on July 21. Last month, during a week of political turmoil, Draghi lost first the support of coalition member Five Star Movement, then that of the two major right-wing parties that had initially backed his unity government. Why Are Italians Heading to the Polls?ĭraghi, the former president of the European Central Bank, was a technocrat summoned into Italian politics to steer the country in a time of crisis.įor 18 months, he brought a period of relative stability to Italy, even as the country, as well as the entire European continent and the rest of the world, struggled with pandemic-related supply chain issues, the explosion of the war in Ukraine and rising inflation. Pier Marco Tacca/Getty ImagesĪnother poll from Lab2101 puts the PD in the lead with 25.6 percent of the vote over Brothers of Italy's 22.3 percent, though the right-wing bloc still had strong overall support at 47.7 percent, with the center-left coalition trailing on 32.4 percent. Brothers of Italy has received a quarter of all votes in a recent poll in Italy. In this photo, Brothers of Italy's leader Giorgia Meloni speaks at a rally in Milan in April 2022.
