The Italy elections that was dominated by immigration and economic issues as produced the anti-establishment Five Star Movement as the country’s biggest party with 30.7 per cent of the vote, while the anti-migrant, eurosceptic League stood at 18.8 per cent, a massive increase on the four percent it took in elections in 2013. It was a triumph of anti-system, anti-EU as populist with 49% ensures a hung parliament.
It’s projected that that former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right coalition will emerge with 248-268 seats, short of the 316 needed for a majority, the Five Star Movement in second place with 216-236 seats and the ruling Democratic Party and its centre-left coalition is expected to end up with just 107-127 seats.
As no single party or coalition reached a simple majority, it is mathematically possible, based on the projected results, for the Five Star Movement, led by former comedian Beppe Grillo to combine with the Democratic Party to combine to form a government even though the Five Star Movement earlier said it would not go into coalition government.
Another posssible senario is that of a ‘grand coalition’ of Berlusconi’s coalition combining with the Democratic Party to form a government.
