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Five Star Movement leads in Senate, RAI projects

Democratic Party behind by 0.1%

25 February, 16:58
Five Star Movement leads in Senate, RAI projects (ANSA) - Rome, February 25 - The anti-establishment Five Star Movement of comic Beppe Grillo is projected to be the biggest party in the Italian Senate with 25.1%, a projection by public broadcaster RAI said Monday. The center-left Democratic Party is second with 25%, followed by the center-right People of Freedom party with 22.7% and outgoing Premier Mario Monti's centrist party with 9.6%, the Piepoli Institute projected. As for coalition leaders, the center-right is up with 31.6% followed by the center left's 29.4%, according to the RAI projection.

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