POLLS: Populist Support Surges in Italy, Nationalist Lega Closes Gap on Five-Star
Italy’s populist parties are on course to win an outright majority in parliament if new elections are held, according to the latest polls.
Italy’s populist parties are on course to win an outright majority in parliament if new elections are held, according to the latest polls.
Italy’s populist Five Star Movement has demanded European Union (EU) bosses “defend democracy” after Germany’s EU Commissioner appeared to threaten voters, telling them that the “markets will teach the Italians to vote for the right thing”.
New statistics from the recent Italian election show 75 per cent of the youngest first-time voters — born in 1999 — voted for anti-establishment parties.
The far-left Swedish magazine Expo — whose parent organisation the Expo Foundation is funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros — has claimed that Russian media influenced the Italian election by “whipping up hatred of immigrants”.
The populist La Lega party have become the first in Italy to put forward and elect a black Italian to the country’s Senate in the form of the well-known tough on mass migration Nigerian-Italian politician Tony Chike Iwobi.
Newly released exit polls from today’s Italian national election show a massive surge for populist parties with the Five Star Movement (M5S) becoming the single largest party while the centre-right populist-conservative coalition looks just short of forming a new government.
Populist leader Matteo Salvini has warned that Italy could leave the European Union (EU) after Britain if Brussels continues to refuse to listen to the public’s concerns.
Former Italian Prime Minister and leader of the Forza Italia party Silvio Berlusconi has put his support behind a plan to revitalise the economies of Africa in order to prevent mass migration to Europe.
The left-wing Italian Democratic Party (PD) held a voting class for Muslims this week in Milan with some highlighting the fact that the party had used ballots where the only choice was the Democratic Party.
U.S. broadcaster CNN published an article this week by historian Andrea Mammone claiming that the return of conservative former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to Italian politics, along with the popularity of anti-mass migration parties, is heralding a return to fascism. According to
A Senegalese migrant attacked an asylum worker in the southern Italian commune of Cassino after the migrant complained that the home lacked wireless internet.
The Mosque of Segrate located on the outskirts of Milan has called on Muslims to vote for the centre-left coalition and parties favourable to granting birthplace citizenship.
Italians are set to elect a new government on Sunday with anti-mass migration and Eurosceptic parties dominating the polls in an election that could shake the European Union to its foundations.
Populist leader of the Lega party Matteo Salvini struck back at a pro-migrant bishop who slammed him for swearing an oath of loyalty to the Italian people on a bible, saying “in my Italy, immigration has rules”.
The largely abandoned former seaside resort town of Castel Volturno north of Naples has been taken over by Nigerian gangs who run drug and prostitution rings.
A poll has revealed that 65 per cent of Italians under the age of 35 are against mass migration with some wanting to limit the number of migrants flowing into the country while others want the rate reduced to zero.
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has upped the ante on his coalition partner populist Lega leader Matteo Salvini saying that he will deport 100,000 more migrants, referring to them as “criminals”.
Italian populist Lega leader Matteo Salvini has named Islam as one of the greatest threats to Italy and has promised to not only carry out deportations of illegals but secure all aspects of the Italian border on land and sea.
After the victory of pro-sovereignty Czech President Miloš Zeman, many are looking to the next three big national elections in Europe this year in which populists and pro-sovereignty parties look to dominate in Italy and Hungary and place strongly in Sweden.
Matteo Salvini, leader of the populist Lega Nord, has promised he will deport half a million migrants if he becomes Prime Minister of Italy.
A poll has shown that the majority of Italian voters between the ages of 18 and 40 support Eurosceptic parties like the Five Star Movement and the new right-wing coalition of populist Lega Nord and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia.