Catholics helped win Meloni’s election
2022.09.27 10:39
Catholics helped win Meloni’s election
By Kristina Sobol
Budrigannews.com – Surveys indicate that Catholics and self-employed individuals contributed to Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party’s victory in Sunday’s election. A significant proportion of women voters put Meloni on track to become Italy’s first female prime minister.
Brothers of Italy was the largest party in the winning conservative alliance with approximately 26% of the vote, up from 4% in the previous national election in 2018.
A YouTrend post-election study reveals that Meloni’s party received nearly 5.9 million more votes than in the 2018 elections, roughly the same number that its League and Forza Italia allies lost in comparison to the previous election. According to a SWG survey, half of Meloni’s backers had left her partners.
SWG claims that independent workers preferred Meloni. Brothers of Italy was chosen by 32% of the country’s over 5 million self-employed voters, who continue to give the League and Forza Italia a strong support.
Rado Fonda, a political analyst at SWG, told Reuters, “The self-employed have moved in a substantial way from the League to Brothers of Italy.”
Brothers of Italy, a post-fascist party with roots in Italy, defeated the League in the wealthy north, winning more than twice as many votes in the important regions of Veneto, Lombardy, and Piedmont, where Matteo Salvini’s party has historically held strongholds.
Angelo Bruschi, a self-employed worker in Milan, the capital of Lombardy, joined the Brothers of Italy instead of the League. He stated that he hopes Meloni will reduce the country’s taxes and bureaucracy.
The property manager, who is 73 years old, stated to Reuters, “These are key issues for us, and Meloni is committed to them.”
Brothers of Italy received approximately 29% of the Catholic vote, according to a polling institute Ixe analysis, followed by the center-left Democratic Party, which received approximately 17%.
“I am a practicing Catholic and I agree with Meloni’s traditional view on the family,” Bruschi said, adding that his choice for president was influenced by her political and economic views.
According to the SWG survey, voters who were struggling financially gave Brothers of Italy a lot of support, as did the left-leaning 5-Star Movement.
According to the SWG survey, Meloni received 27% of female votes, more than any other party. However, women abstained the most, with more than a third of them leaving the polls in a low-turnout election.
Meloni is “smart, very determined, and charismatic,” according to 26-year-old Paderno Dugnano resident Beatrice Carcano, who said she switched from Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia to Brothers of Italy.
