{"id":11047,"date":"2026-06-16T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11047"},"modified":"2026-06-16T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T10:29:00","slug":"italy-far-right-parties-are-gaining-ground-according-to-the-latest-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11047","title":{"rendered":"Italy: Far-right parties are gaining ground, according to the latest polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rise of the new far-right party<b> &#8220;National Future&#8221;<\/b> as shown by the latest <b>polls <\/b>on voting intentions in <b>Italy<\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>More specifically, according to the<b> poll by the company Swg, <\/b>which was conducted on behalf of the private channel <b>La7,<\/b> General <b>Roberto Vanacci\u2019s \u201cNational Future\u201d (<\/b>whose founding convention took place last weekend) garners, in Italians\u2019 voting intentions, <b>a 5.3% share <\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>The main policy positions of <b>this new party<\/b>include<b> mass deportations of undocumented immigrants,<\/b>restrictions on the <b>rights <\/b>of many immigrants with <b>work permits,<\/b> the <b>abolition <\/b>of the crime of <b>femicide <\/b>and the view that members of the <b>LGBTQ+<\/b> community should not enjoy any special <b>legal protection<\/b>. At this stage, General Vanacci\u2019s new party has chosen <b>not to support <\/b>the government in Rome.<\/p>\n<p>As for the parties of the <b>conservative coalition,<\/b> Prime Minister <b>Giorgia Meloni<\/b> remains the country\u2019s leading political force, with a share of<b> 27.9%.<\/b> <b>\u201cForza Italia\u201d <\/b>, led by Foreign Minister <b>Antonio Tajani<\/b>, is chosen by <b> 7.2% <\/b>of respondents, while <b>Matteo Salvini\u2019s League<\/b> (from which many National Future leaders hail) slips to <b>5.3%.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>As for the <b>opposition<\/b>, the Democratic Party <\/b>, led by Elly <b>Schlein <\/b>and polling at 22.1%, is once again in the lead by a wide margin. The \u201cFive Star Movement\u201d of former Prime Minister <b>Giuseppe Conte<\/b> stands at <b>13.3%, <\/b>while the Italian <b>Left <\/b>and the Greens \u201cconvince\u201d <b> 6.5% <\/b>of the statistical sample.<\/p>\n<p>Next are the <b>small centrist parties \u201cAzione\u201d<\/b> (Azione) with 3.1% and \u201cViva Italia\u201d led by former Prime Minister Matteo Renzi with 2.4%. The radicals of the \u201cMore Europe\u201d party secure 1.6% of the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest polls on voting intentions in Italy show a rise in support for the new far-right party &#8220;National Future.&#8221; More specifically,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}