Former Prime Minister and leader of the Democratic Party Matteo Renzi resigned as party leader after a major defeat, when the centre-left coalition picked up just 22.85 percent of the vote. NurPhoto/Press Association. All rights reserved.The post-election map of Italy has two main traits: fear and poverty. Northern and Central regions have gone into a centre-right-wing coalition where the leader is not any more Forza Italia’s Silvio Berlusconi but the League’s Matteo Salvini, who dropped its previous ‘Lega Nord’ emphasis to turn it into a nationwide Le Pen-style National Front. Matteo Renzi is the clear loser of the election, with his Democratic Party getting 19% of the vote.
In the Northern counties of Lombardy and Veneto the centre-right is over 50%, with the League reaching 33 to 38% in its heartlands. In Piedmont outside the Turin area the centre-right is close to 50%, with a weaker League. In the rest of the North the centre-right is almost everywhere over 40%; in Emilia, Tuscany and Umbria the percentage is over 35%; in Lazio excluding Rome it is at 40%.
