Right-wing alliance seen as likely winner as Italians vote


  • World
  • Sunday, 25 Sep 2022

Polling station workers place a ballot poster ahead of the September 25 snap election, in Rome, Italy September 24, 2022. REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov

ROME (Reuters) - Millions of Italians will vote on Sunday in an election that is forecast to return the country's most right-wing government since World War Two and usher in its first woman prime minister.

Italy's first autumn national election in more than a century was triggered by party infighting that brought down Prime Minister Mario Draghi's broad national unity government in July.

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