Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing Brothers of Italy party has a clear lead ahead of the country’s Democratic Party (PD), with 28% of the vote, according to an exit poll.
In second place, the PD has 23% of the vote, approximately the same share of the vote that the party won in 2019. The Five Star Movement was third with 12%.
In the 2022 Italian election, Meloni – who is the current president of the right-wing group European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) – was vocal in her opposition to LGBTQ+ rights and desires to tackle immigration.
Since then, she has been seen as considerably more moderate, supporting many European Union initiatives, including support for Ukraine.
New exit poll
A complete survey of seats for the renewal of the European Parliament (720 seats total) shows the following results:
- European People’s Party: 189 seats
- Democratic Socialists: 135 seats
- Renew Europe: 80 seats
- European Conservatives and Reformists: 72 seats
- Identity and Democracy: 58 seats
- Greens: 52 seats
- The Left: 36 seats
- Non-registered: 46 seats
- Others: 52 seats
Source: CNN Brasil
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