ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi was on course for a sweeping victory in Sunday's European election with voter projections giving his centre-left Democratic Party (PD) a huge lead over the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement of ex-comic Beppe Grillo.
With more than half the vote counted, a projection by IPR Marketing for RAI state television put the PD on 41.2 percent, well ahead of the 5-Star Movement on 21.4 percent with former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia party on 16.6 percent.