Luigi Di Maio is so confident his populist Five Star Movement (M5S) will triumph in today’s Italian elections that he has already presented his would-be cabinet. In what he called an “act of transparency”, the impeccably groomed 31-year-old politician named his dream team, which includes an economist, a criminologist, a doctor and an Olympic gold medallist, three days before the election. Brushing off rivals who ridiculed the move, he boasted: “We will be the ones laughing on Monday, when Italians will probably take us to 40%.” Voting began in Italy on Sunday morning and polls will close at 11pm. M5S will almost certainly emerge as the biggest single party, but with final opinion polls putting it on roughly 28% (and some pollsters suggesting it might secure an even higher vote), it is unlikely to reach the 40% required for a majority and to govern alone. To steer into power it would have to flout a rule sacred to its origins and form a coalition, a scenario already rejected by the party’s founder, the irreverent comedian Beppe Grillo, and those devoted to its anti-establishment principles. But however things pan out, pundits are starting to wonder whether the elections will make or… Read full this story
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