Forza Italia party chairman Silvio Berlusconi won a Senate seat in Italy’s elections and returned to the Chamber from which he was expelled in 2013 after being sentenced to four years in prison for tax fraud.
The 85-year-old former Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, managed to stay in Monza after winning 50.32% of the vote, followed by centre-left Federica Perelli with 27.17%; Fabio Albanese, from Acción, with 10.21%; and Bruno Marton, from Movimento 5 Estrelas (M5S), at 7.66%.
Berlusconi said after the vote on Sunday that “the vote is the only weapon to change things”.
“For the first time in my life I saw long queues at polling stations. It is a sign of a great desire to give Italy a stable and reliable government,” he said on the social network Twitter.
“Long live democracy. Long live freedom of choice,” he added.
The mood is the only weapon che abbiamo per cambiare le cose.
Per la prima volta in tutta la mia vita, ho seen code lunghissime ai seggi. It is the segnale che c’è una great voglia di dare all’Italia, a statement stabilized by the government.
Forza, Italy! pic.twitter.com/VpBJ1EhmjD— Silvio Berlusconi (@berlusconi) September 25, 2022
More than 50 million Italians were called to vote on Sunday in Italy’s parliamentary elections, in which, due to partisan fragmentation, no party is expected to gain a sufficient majority to rule alone.
The center-right coalition is preparing to check the Italian senate after Sunday’s general election, securing between 111 and 131 seats in the upper house, according to a poll by Consorzio Opinio Italia for television Rai.
The center-left should have between 33 and 53 senators, the 5-Star Movement (M5S) 14 to 34 and the third center pole of Azione-Italia Viva four to 12 seats, according to the exit poll quoted by ANSA.
The Consorzio Opinio Italia exit poll puts the Brothers of Italy party (far right) at 24.6%, the Democratic Party (center-left) at 19.4% and the M5S at 16.5%.
Already the projection of the SWG polling station for the television La7, quoted by the Italian news agency – ANSA, indicates that the center right should get 43.3% of the vote for the Senate.
The poll places center left at 25.4%, the 5-Star Movement (M5S) at 17% and the third center pole at 7.9%.
According to this forecast, Giorgia Meloni and her party, the Brothers of Italy, lead the electoral race, with 26% of the vote.
Source: DN
