League leader Matteo Salvini led the opposition center-right to a crushing victo...
ROME - League leader Matteo Salvini led the opposition center-right to a crushing victory in the Italian region of Umbria, results on Monday showed, raising questions about how long the national government in Rome can survive.
The center-right candidate for governor in the small, central region won 57.5% of the vote against just 37.6% for the 5-Star/PD contender — the first time in half a century that the bloc backed by the center-left had lost control of Umbria. In a political miscalculation, Salvini walked out of government with 5-Star in August, expecting his move to trigger a election that polls predicted he would easily win.
The PD clinched 22.3%, slightly down on what it won in Umbria in European parliamentary elections in May, while 5-Star slumped to 7.4% — half of what it chalked up in the EU ballot.5-Star blamed its poor showing on the decision to present a joint candidate with the PD — its traditional political foe before their surprise alliance in August.
The center-right has won eight straight regional ballots since the last national election in March 2018, and all eyes are now fixed on the Jan. 26 vote in Emilia Romagna — a northern region that has more than four times the population of Umbria and which is the historic heartland of Italy’s left.
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