{"id":348718,"date":"2018-02-17T21:07:33","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T20:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/italian-elections-going-to-be-messy-say-pollsters\/"},"modified":"2018-02-17T21:07:33","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T20:07:33","slug":"italian-elections-going-to-be-messy-say-pollsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/italian-elections-going-to-be-messy-say-pollsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Election\u2019s Going to Be Messy, Say Pollsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>The final opinion polls before the Italian election suggest it will be a struggle for any of the main parties to form a government.<\/p>\n<p>Friday marks the last day in which opinion polls can be published ahead of the March 4 ballot, according to Italian law. All the polls have similar findings \u2014 one of the most unpredictable elections in decades likely ending with a hung parliament. That in turn could lead to a larghe intese \u2014 a grand coalition \u2014 even though all the main parties have ruled out such an arrangement during a heated campaign.<\/p>\n<p>All the polls show the anti-establishment 5Star Movement led by Luigi Di Maio becoming the single largest party, winning between 27 and 29 percent of the vote. That wouldn\u2019t be enough for the 5Stars to rule on their own, however, and they have rejected the idea of striking a deal with the other mainstream parties.<\/p>\n<p>The center-right coalition led by Silvio Berlusconi has better chances of securing a working majority, pollsters say. The group \u2014 Berlusconi\u2019s Forza Italia, plus the Northern League of Matteo Salvini and the right-wing Brothers of Italy \u2014 is predicted to get between 35 and 38 percent of the vote, which could be enough for a razor-thin majority.<\/p>\n<p>Under new electoral rules, 63 percent of seats are assigned using a proportional voting system, with the remaining 37 percent of the parliament to be elected locally under a first-past-the-post system. It\u2019s in the latter where the election could be decided, especially seats&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/italian-elections-going-to-be-messy-say-pollsters\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final opinion polls before the Italian election suggest it will be a struggle for any of the main parties to form a government. Friday marks the last day in which opinion polls can be published ahead of the March 4 ballot, according to Italian law. All the polls have similar findings \u2014 one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-348718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}