The Italian right consolidates its wide lead in the polls one month before the elections

Aug. 19 () –

The coalition of right-wing Italian parties led by the ultra-nationalist Brothers of Italy, led by Giorgia Meloni, continues to comfortably lead the polls ahead of the September 25 elections with almost 50 percent voting intention and more than 20 percentage points. advantage over the fragmented left bloc.

The latest survey by the Tecne institute collected by Bloomberg grants Meloni’s group — which is accompanied by the League and Forza Italia, of former prime ministers Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi — 49.8 percent of the vote compared to 30 percent of the leftist coalition led by the Democratic Party of former Prime Minister Enrico Letta. The anti-system 5 Star Movement (M5S) barely exceeds 10 percent of the votes.

The survey continues the upward trend exhibited by the Italian Brothers and their allies in a previous August 9 poll published by the Sky TG24 network that gave the bloc 48.2 percent of the vote, 2.2 points more than in the previous measurement.

In this survey the left-wing bloc continued to fall after losing five points compared to the previous month’s Sky TG24 survey, from 33 to 28 percent.

A resounding victory for Meloni’s bloc in the elections could unleash a wave of support in Parliament and the possibility of the alliance winning a two-thirds majority, at which point the right could promote a constitutional reform, as it has already the leader of the Brothers of Italy has advanced.

Meloni has argued that this reform would aim to shore up a “fragile and unstable” political system, he explained to the British weekly ‘The Spectator’, marked by constant changes of government. In particular, Meloni has hinted at the possibility of increasing the powers of the Prime Minister or facilitating the direct election of the President of the Republic.