The centre-right alliance won the snap parliamentary elections in Italy on Sunday with 42.8 percent.

This was the result of projections by the TV broadcaster LA7.

The alliance of Italy's right-wing conservative brothers under Giorgia Meloni, Matteo Salvini's right-wing nationalist Lega and Silvio Berlusconi's Christian-democratic Forza Italia thus achieved an absolute majority of the votes in both chambers of parliament.

Matthias Rub

Political correspondent for Italy, the Vatican, Albania and Malta based in Rome.

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It is considered likely that President Sergio Mattarella will commission the election winner Giorgia Meloni, whose party, according to calculations by the broadcaster Rai, won 25.5 percent of the votes, to form a government.

The second strongest force in the alliance is the Lega (8.5 percent), followed by Forza Italia (7.9 percent).

Italexit misses entry into Parliament

According to the voter polls, the Social Democrats under Enrico Letta will be the strongest opposition force with a good 19 percent of the vote.

They recognized the right-wing camp's electoral victory and intend to go into opposition.

According to the forecasts, the left-wing populist Five Star Movement will receive a good 16 percent of the votes.

The liberal alliance of the "third pole" achieved a respectable result with a good seven percent of the votes, the Greens came to just under four percent.

The Italexit party, which wants Italy to leave the EU, missed out on entering parliament with around two percent of the vote.

At 64 percent, voter turnout was the lowest it has ever been in the history of the republic.

In 2018 it was still 73 percent.

Cheers from Europe's right

Politicians from the German AfD, the right-wing national Rassemblement National from France and the Polish PiS congratulated Meloni on her victory.

"We're celebrating with Italy!" Wrote AfD member of parliament Beatrix von Storch on Twitter late on Sunday evening.

Her party colleague Malte Kaufmann tweeted: "A good day for Italy - a good day for Europe." Referring to the recent elections in Sweden, in which the right was also successful, von Storch wrote: "Sweden in the north, Italy in the south: Left-wing governments are so yesterday.”

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki wrote on Twitter "Congratulations @Giorgia Meloni".

French MEP Jordan Bardella from Marine Le Pen's Rassemblement National (RN) wrote on Twitter that the Italians had given EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen "a lesson in humility".

The German politician said last week that her agency had "tools" if Italy, under a right-wing government, failed to comply with EU rules.

"No threat of any kind can stop democracy," wrote the RN party leader.

"The peoples of Europe lift up their heads and take back control of their destiny."

MEPs concerned

However, leading MEPs warn of a government led by Giorgia Meloni.

“Giorgia Meloni will be a prime minister whose political role models are Viktor Orbán and Donald Trump.

The election victory of the alliance of right-centre parties in Italy is therefore worrying," said Katharina Barley (SPD), Vice-President of the EU Parliament, the "world".

Meloni's "election campaign tactical lip service for Europe" cannot hide the fact that she poses a threat to constructive coexistence in Europe, said the former German Minister of Justice.

The spokesman for the German Greens in the EU Parliament, Rasmus Andresen, said that the "unprecedented Italian shift to the right" would have a massive impact on Europe and the European Union.

"Italy, as a founding member and the third strongest economy in the EU, is heading towards an anti-democratic and anti-European government," Andresen said in a statement.