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Bloomberg
Support for Italy’s anti-migrant League continues to rise and it’s now close to giving the party a potential Parliamentary majority if the country were
to vote again.
A new SWG poll aired by La7 television found that support for Matteo Salvini’s party rose to a record 38 percent, and very close to the 40 percent seen by analysts as the minimum to secure an absolute majority in the two houses of the Rome-based parliament.
The poll — conducted in the six days through July 1 on 1,500 people — could offer the 46-year-old deputy prime minister a new incentive to try and break free from the government coalition currently formed with Luigi Di Maio’s Five Star Movement, which according to the poll would be backed by 17.2 percent of
the population. Support for Salvini’s League has more than doubled since last year’s general vote, fuelling speculation that the politician will make a power grab by pulling the plug on the government and seeking new elections.