The party leaders of opposition of Italy blamed lack of unity and voters who chose the path of populism for the electoral defeat on Monday after Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing bloc won national parliamentary elections.
Toward the end of the count, the results showed the conservative alliance, which includes Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, Matteo Salvini’s La Liga, and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia, on course for a solid majority in both houses of Parliament. .
The center-left and center parties, which contested the election in isolation after a series of disagreements, collectively won more votes than the right, but an electoral law favors broad alliances.
Enrico Letta, the head of the Democratic Party (PD), oppositionannounced that he will step down.
Letta, whose party won about 19% of the vote, said the right’s victory had its roots in the 5 Star Movement’s (M5S) decision to withdraw support from Mario Draghi’s national unity administration last July.
This prompted the resignation of the former president of the European Central Bank (ECB), putting an end to Letta’s plans to forge an electoral alliance with the 5 Star Movement, which had gained around 15% thanks to strong performance in the south.
5 Star Movement leader Giuseppe Conte said overnight that it was the PD’s fault if it proved impossible for the center-left to win.
Carlo Calenda, leader of the centrist Ação party, which initially sided with the PD but later withdrew from the alliance, lamented that much of the country “chose the path of populism”.
Source: CNN Brasil
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