Election Italy seems to be deadlock

rome - More than fifty million Italian voters are threatening to choose a parliament on Sunday that can not form a stable government because of divisions. The country changed the electoral system last year to create some order. With a threshold of 3 percent and some changes in the way parliamentary seats are achieved, a stable government with a majority could come. Whoever obtains about 40 percent of the votes, would have a majority on Monday.

But this plan threatens to fail Sunday according to opinion pollers. It still has to be seen whether polls are reliable. The interest in politics in Italy is minimal. A third of voters do not know who is going to vote on Sunday. Many voters have lost confidence and have noticed in their poverty that the country is one of the few Western economies that does not emerge from the crisis. Millions of young Italians have gone abroad in recent years to see if they have a future there.

The main party leaders promise to throw money to fight poverty, but their promises would cost so much money that they are hard to believe. The man who is most likely to start Monday with the formation of a government with his right-wing occasional coalition (37.5 percent in poll) is former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. He had to clear the field in 2011 as prime minister because he almost ruined the country. Berlusconi may also not become a prime minister now, because he was convicted of tax evasion. But that did not prevent him from launching a political comeback at the age of 81.

The biggest party would be the Eurosceptic protest party Movimento 5 Stelle (M5S- Five Star Movement). The M5S of Luigi Di Maio is more than 26 percent in the last poll, but the internally distributed M5S has so far always expressed aversion to coalitions. And Berlusconi has set up his coalition with people that he can hardly deal with politically. His center-right Forza Italia participates in the election with, among others, the right-wing populist Northern Italian Lega Nord by Matteo Salvini and with the right-wing nationalists of Fratelli d'Italia (Brothers of Italy).

The coalition dominated by the center-left Democratic Party (DP) of Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni hopes to survive on Sunday without much tear. The PD is again led by ex-Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and received almost a quarter of the votes in polls.