Deputy Premier and Interior
Minister Matteo Salvini's League party is set to win 27 seats in
May's European elections, according to new set of projections
released by the European Parliament on Friday based on published
polling data.
This would confirm the League's position as the European
party with the second-most MEPs after Germany's CSU/CDU with 33.
The League won six seats in the 2014 European elections and
was forecast to get 28 this time around in the previous set of
projections, released on March 1.
The League's government coalition partner, the 5-Star
Movement (M5S), is set to win 18 seats, down by three on the
previous projection but up from 14 in 2014.
The centre-right Democratic Party is also set to win 18,
according to the new projections, up from the 14 forecast on
March 1 but down from 31 it won five years ago.
Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right Forza Italia is projected to
have nine MEPs.
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