Immigration issue powers Italian right to 18 point lead | Eastern NC Now

 

Italy's caretaker government is again allowing illegal alien migrants to land in the country, and voters reaction to that is shown in the polling numbers for anti-immigration parties. The three party anti-immigration coalition backing Matteo Salvini has surged to an 18 point lead over the parties of the former center-left government that collapsed a few months ago.  

 

The poll by Noto Sondaggi for Italian television put Salvini's populist nationalist right Lega Party in first place with 21.5%, followed by the ultra conservative Brothers of Italy with 18.5%, the traditional left Democratic Party at 18%, the populist left 5 Star Movement at 16%, and the traditional conservative Forza Italia Party of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi at 13%. While Lega has been in the number one position for the past two years, this is the second poll in a row to show the Brothers of Italy overtaking the Democratic Party for second place. Despite its masculine name, the Brothers of Italy is led by a dynamic woman, Senator Giorgia Meloni.

 

 

The immigration issue also has great potential for the Republican Party in the 2022 and 2024 elections in the United States.