The Italian Prime Minister, the far-right Giorgia Meloni, and her party, Brothers of Italy (FDI), They emerge as the winners of the European elections in the country by obtaining between 26 and 30% of the votes, according to the exit poll broadcast at the closing of the schools by public television RAI.
In second and third place are, according to the same survey, the Democratic Party (PD, center-left), which could get between 21% and 25%and the anti-system Five Star Movement (M5S), which would move within a range of between 10% and 14%.
The parties led by Meloni’s two vice presidents, the conservative Forza Italia, of Antonio Tajani, would be behind, with between 8.5% and 10.5% then, while the far-right League, of the Minister of Transport, Matteo Salvini , the second would add between 8% and 10%.
Polling stations in Italy closed at 11:00 p.m. local time (9:00 p.m. GMT), the last country in the European Union (EU) to do so, in a vote to elect the 76 Italian representatives in the European Parliament.
Another survey released by the private channel Sky provides similar data to those of the public channel, as it predicts that FDI would add 26.5%, ahead of the PD (23%) and the M5S (12.5%), while FI, with 9.5%, would overtake Liga , with 9% and the Green-Left Alliance would reach 5.5%
In the last European elections, in 2019, the undisputed winner was Salvini (34%.2), ahead of the PD (22.74%) and the M5S (17.06%), while Meloni’s formation was fifth with only 6.44% of the votes. Five years later, the prime minister has gained more than 20 points.
Meloni, who presented herself as a ‘fictitious’ candidate to try to attract more votesalthough he has no intention of sitting in a seat in Strasbourg, and FDI have also improved the results they obtained when they won the general elections in September 2022, with 24.6%.
