Center-right coalition leads Italy's elections, Interior Ministry says

Preparations for parliamentary elections at a polling station in Rome. File photoROME, Sep 26The centre-right coalition wins the early elections to the Italian parliament with 44.06 percent of the vote, according to the first data of the Italian Ministry of the Interior after counting ten percent of the ballots. individual political forces. Its allies, the League and Forward Italia parties, receive 9.13 percent and 7.66 percent respectively. The counting of votes in the Chamber of Deputies will begin later. Meloni said that the first results showed the desire of citizens to see a center-right government. «I think from the first forecasts we can say that the Italians received a clear indication of a centre-right government led by the Brothers of Italy. <…> it was a brutal, aggressive election campaign, I believe that the difficult situation in which Italy finds itself requires the contribution of everyone,” said the head of the party. The center-left coalition can count on 27.79 percent of the vote in the upper house. Its leading player, the Democratic Party , tentatively gaining 20.57 percent. The third most popular political force is the 5 Star Movement, with 14.34 percent support.Italy changed its mind about committing suicide. Brussels is outraged. So far, data from 7.4 thousand polling stations out of 60 thousand have been counted. Polling stations for early elections in Italy worked from 7 am to 11 pm. After they closed, the official counting of votes began. Turnout was 63.8 percent, down 9 percent from the March 2018 vote, interior minister Luciana Lamorgese said. Election procedure for the Italian Parliament