Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party has won European elections in Italy with a strong 28% of the votes, boosting her leadership at home and consolidating her kingmaker role in Europe.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni was among the first voters on Saturday in Italy casting her ballot as soon as polls opened for citizens aged 18 and above. Italians were called to vote over two days to fill 76 Europe an parliamentary seats, with populist and far-right parties looking to make gains across the 27-member bloc.Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni casts her vote for the Europe an Parliament elections, in Rome , Saturday, June 8, 2024.
The victory in Italy’s voting for European Parliament representatives provides a boost for Meloni, after almost two years in power, mainly at the expense of her governing partners in Rome. For the opposition, the main centre-left Democratic Party got 24.5%, followed by the populist Five Star Movement, which received only 10.5%, a seven-point decrease from the 2019 election.
“I think that Meloni gets out of these elections stronger, first of all because this is a government that has not lost consensus, which is quite unique in Europe,” said Giovanni Orsina, director of the school of government at LUISS university in Rome.
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