The election will determine the composition of the Legislative for the next five years and will configure the Parliament that will have to give the vote of confidence to the coalition that emerges with more strength to form a Government based on what President Sergio Mattarella indicates.
The polls opened at 7 a.m. and will close at 11 p.m. local time (6 p.m. in Argentina) to give the 46,127,514 people who are qualified to vote within Italy time to vote.
In addition to the voters distributed in more than 61,000 polling stations throughout the peninsula, another 4,741,790 people were authorized to vote from abroad, including almost 756,000 from Argentina.
The votes from abroad, which arrived by mail, will be counted this Sunday along with those cast in Italy.
Meloni, who with his right-wing nationalist force Brothers of Italy leads all the polls in alliance with the also right-wing Liga and Fuerza Italia, seeks to consolidate the position to reach a simple majority of the seats that will allow him to appear before Mattarella with sufficient political support. to give life to a new Executive.
“Let’s write history together,” Meloni, 45, called on social media mid-morning.
The nationalist leader had planned to vote in the morning, but finally decided to attend at 11:00 p.m., at the closing of the polls, to avoid crowds around her participation, her environment reported.
With an electoral law that distributes two thirds of the seats with the proportional or list system or the other third with a single-member or majority college model, one of the unknowns will be to see the level of participation, which in the last two elections was for below 80% for the first time in history.
The announcement of an “orange alert” in effect early in four regions of the country due to storms generated fears of a drop in the influx.
At Italian noon, in the first cut released by the Ministry of the Interior with the analysis of 20% of the tables, the participation after five hours of voting was around 17.94%, slightly lower than the 19.22% of the 2018 elections for a similar sample.
Faced with a complex government formation mechanism, the alliance made up of Brothers of Italy, Liga and Fuerza Italia appears in all the polls as the favorite to reach first place and a number of seats between 40 and 45% at the national, after a campaign based on the rejection of immigration, tougher policies towards Europe and promises of less fiscal pressure.
In the event of a very good election, the right could thus reach two thirds of the seats, the requirement to make constitutional reforms without the need for a confirmatory referendum.
If he reaches that threshold, he could thus advance his promise to give Italians the possibility of electing the president with a direct vote and that it is not the result of an agreement between parliamentarians.
In second place, according to the polls, would be the center-left Democratic Party group headed by ex-premier Enrico Letta, with about 20% of the votes, based on a ratification of the country’s Europeanism, greater affinity with environmental concerns and a agenda for the expansion of social rights.
However, the lack of alliances with other forces could complicate the sector’s chances of presenting a government option if Meloni’s chance fails.
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The Five Star Movement, with positions of greater State intervention in the economy, could be the third force with a base of 12% of the preferences according to previous surveys.
Once the new composition of Parliament has been chosen based on today’s elections, Mattarella will anyway be responsible for choosing a figure to entrust him with the formation of a new Government by virtue of the legislative support he can get. Meloni, in this context, aspires to become the first woman in the country’s history to become premier.
According to the latest projections, the right could obtain between 248 and 268 seats in the Deputies and between 136 and 136 in the Senate, above the simple majorities of 201 and 101.
The center-left, meanwhile, could gather between 78 and 98 deputies and 39 to 49 senators, always based on the latest polls and waiting for the definition in some of the most even uninominal colleges.
The elections had been called at the end of July after the fall of the Government of Mario Draghi, who had been supported since February 2021 by all the parties except the Brothers of Italy, and who remains in office for the “current administration” of the State. until the swearing-in of a new Executive.
Source: Ambito
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