Given the country's fractured political spectrum, no single party is forecast to win enough seats to govern alone so right-wing and right-leaning centrists have formed a campaign pact that could propel Giorgia Meloni into power.
Fewer lawmakers and a confusing electoral system
Since the last election, a reform has been passed aimed at streamlining parliament and making its operation less costly to taxpayers. Italy also has a complicated electoral law - something widely agreed upon, including by the lawmakers who created it. The remaining 64% of the seats get divvied up proportionally, based on candidate lists determined by parties and their alliances.Posters with names of candidates are placed in a polling station set in a school, in Rome. Pic: AP
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