Italian right wing consolidates in the polls after fragmentation of the left wing

The Italian conservative parties, led by the far-right Brothers of Italy and the League, have widened their lead in voting intentions following the public arm wrestling on the left over the breakup of the bloc that the leader of the Democratic Party (PD), former Prime Minister Enrico Letta, was trying to form.

Brothers of Italy, the party headed by Giorgia Melonia, who is already claiming her right to be the next prime minister, is listed as favorite with 24.2 percent, according to a poll published Tuesday by the Sky TG24 channel. In total, the right-wing coalition would add 48.2 percent of the votes, 2.2 points more than in the previous measurement.

On the other hand, the potential left-wing bloc falls back, from 33 to 28 percent, after Letta’s bloc was blown apart on Sunday with the departure of Accion. The leader of this formation, Carlo Calenda, reproached the PD for the lack of concessions and now seeks to reposition itself.

The 5 Star Movement (M5S) has already made it clear that it will run alone in the September 25 elections, while former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his Italia Viva are seeking to attract Calenda for an alternative ‘third pole’ that seems increasingly tangible.

Calenda himself has shown himself willing to talk to Renzi to weave a “serious proposal”, as he has acknowledged in statements to Canale 5, and the newspaper ‘La Presse’ takes for granted the pact, which would already be well advanced after negotiations between representatives of both sides.

On the conservative side, both Meloni and the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, have mocked the “chaos” that, in their opinion, exists in the rival bloc, while Forza Italia, Silvio Berlusconi’s formation, has presented this Tuesday a campaign with which it aspires to recover part of the ground lost in recent years to the benefit of more radical formations.

Berlusconi, however, remains silent on his political future. “We’ll see,” he said on a radio station when questioned about a potential candidacy in the imminent elections, after he failed this year in his attempt to become president of Italy due to the lack of consensus on his figure.