Matteo Salvini, leader of the League and far-right, and the secretary general of the Progressive Democratic Party (PD), Enrico Letta, were the first political leaders to vote in the general elections to be held this Sunday in Italy.
Salvini, a member of the right-wing coalition that polls indicate will win widely, voted in Milan (north), where he will spend election day in the company of his daughter until the polls close at 11:00 p.m. local time (10:00 p.m.). in Lisbon), when the exit polls are known.
“The beautiful thing is that if the Italians choose the League and the center-right, for five years the Government, the Prime Minister and the ministers, parties and alliances will not change (…) because the last few years have been complicated, said the leader of the League, to which the polls give about 12% of the votes.
Shortly after, Letta, called to be head of the opposition according to the polls, voted in Rome, in the popular district of Testaccio.
Before both, the head of state, Sergio Mattarella, voted for his hometown of Palermo (Sicily).
The Italian polling stations opened this Sunday at 7:00 a.m. local time (6:00 a.m. in Lisbon) for general elections that could make history if, as all the polls indicate, the far-right Giorgia Meloni wins and becomes the first woman to arrive. to power in the country.
Some 51 million Italians are called to the polls to elect 600 parliamentarians (400 deputies and 200 senators), a significant reduction from the current 945 (630 and 315) adopted in a reform approved in a referendum, and 2.7 million of young people will have the opportunity to vote for the first time.
Voting is also taking place in the southern region of Sicily for the election of its president and the renewal of its Assembly.
Source: TSF
