Northern League's leader Matteo Salvini smiles during a news conference in Milan, Italy, June 26, 2017. REUTERS/Alessandro Garofalo
ROME (Reuters) - Italy's centre-right parties hammered their centre-left rivals in mayoral elections, official results showed on Monday, putting pressure on the ruling Democratic Party (PD) ahead of a national vote due in less than a year.
An alliance of Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia and the anti-immigrant Northern League won 55 percent of the votes in Genoa, the northern port city that was a left-wing stronghold but which the right will now govern for the first time in more than five decades.
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