The leaders of the League, Matteo Salvini, and of the Italian Force (FI), Silvio Berlusconi, stressed this Friday the need to “give Italy a solid government”, in a meeting at the house of the former Italian prime minister in Ancore, in Milan.
It is necessary to equip Italy with a solid and high-level government that is capable of facing complicated challenges, starting with the emergency stemming from record energy prices soon,” they said in a joint statement.
In the document, the parties indicated that the dialogue was “cordial” and the two leaders reiterated their “common purpose with Giorgia Meloni”.
The driving force behind the coalition’s triumph was Giorgia Meloni’s far-right Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, who is poised to become Italy’s first female prime minister.
According to the final results, the FdI won Sunday’s elections with 26% of the vote, and the coalition it leads, along with Matteo Salvini’s far-right League and Silvio Berlusconi’s Força Italia, won a clear majority in parliament.
Salvini’s League obtained 8.8% of the vote (compared to 13% in 2018), and Forza Italia, owned by former Prime Minister Berlusconi, 8.1% (14% in 2018), according to figures from the Ministry of the Interior. Interior, quoted by the French news agency AFP.
The coalition of these three parties and a smaller formation with less than 1% obtained 43.8% of the votes.
These results of the right-wing and far-right coalition led by Meloni translate into 237 of the 400 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, and 115 of the 200 seats in the Senate.
The center-left Democratic Party (PD) was the second most voted, with 19% of the votes in the early legislative elections.
Together with his green and leftist allies, he will occupy 84 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 44 in the Senate.
The 5 Star Movement obtained 15.4% of the votes, which earned it 52 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 28 in the Senate.
The centrist Ação alliance obtained 7.8% of the vote and will occupy 21 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and nine in the Senate.
The remaining seats will be distributed among the smaller parties.
Source: Observadora
